[cstejerean]

China couldn’t care about breaking AWS and therefore most of the western companies that depend on it, it would simply provide an advantage to domestic competitors. Last time I lived in China the average person didn’t use much from outside of China on a daily basis and it’s only gotten worse (back then people still used Facebook over VPNs but that has mostly gone away as far as I can tell after China started more seriously cracking down on VPNs).

[vbezhenar]

It's similar with Russia. It has its own search (Yandex), lots of mail servers, video hosting, social network (vk), etc. Western analogs are popular, but if they would become inaccessible, most of people would switch and not care that much.