Maybe I’m not understanding your comment — are you saying that China’s censorship programs are helping to drive the local tech industry? That doesn’t sound right to me.
Yes that's what I'm saying. Specific example: Project Dragonfly effectively forced Google to leave the Chinese market out of domestic pressure. Chinese companies are significantly more apt at navigating Chinese regulatory environment than foreign companies, whose models are hardly compatible with it. It's incentivized Chinese firms to built an entirely parallel ecosystem.