Very good piece. Couldn’t the digital iron curtain be said to have begun with the accelerating blocks of western sites, though? I mean, I’m old enough to remember when you could read the New York Time and Bloomberg while checking your gmail without a VPN...
If China and the United States have begun a technological Cold War, then the Huawei order can best be seen as the beginnings of a digital Iron Curtain. latest from me. Got to say surprised at how many Chinese are surprised by what reciprocity means.https://nyti.ms/2Elq8Aq
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Yes, but the US wasn’t engaging with China as an opponent at that time. That’s the point of the ending.
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Interestingly, the fact that Huawei was stockpiling equipment demonstrates that it in reality did some harm and knew that the retaliation is inevitable. One doesn't prepares for a retaliation if there is no reason for said retaliation.
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The beginnings? Haven’t Twitter and Facebook been banned in China for years?
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Link to this piece? You’ve been opposing the U.S. for many years,” said the headline. “You should be long prepared that the U.S. will oppose you one day.”
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this sort of already began with WeChat as a Facebook-replacement and baidu as a google replacement.
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"Reciprocity"?? That kind of spin would make even the Trump administration blush.
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Not just Google. Per today’s news, it loses all other US tech giants.
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it misses the point Chinese tech companies are able to cross Chinese borders and in the future create global standards
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This is the mement that many Chinese finally woke up from the "illusion".
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