[red-iron-pine]

> In an effort to shield its citizens from the global internet, Russian authorities have effectively turned Runet into a technological appendage of the Chinese internet network.

entire country is trending that way; an appendage of China. "the Canada of China" as someone else put it.

[yosefk]

The Ukraine of China is more like it

[aliowka]

Not very precise, since Ukraine of nowadays is hard to be called appendage of anything.