>> China just has a local Intranet and when you are lucky (and increasingly luckier every year) you can access some small websites on the Internet.

> They've got a firewall around their whole country, not unlike any firewall a corporation might put up to prevent their employees from accessing content the company disagrees with (like viewing pornography/4chan from the network).

I kinda think you just made his point for him. The corporate networks that are walled off in that way are often called "intranets."

Also, local Chinese websites are often significantly walled off from the rest of the internet (though through local-phone-number registration requirements, not firewall rules).