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Is there benefit to setting an example that Chinese citizens would never see anyways?

believe me they see it, a couple years back you could ask Chinese people in the street what they thought of Americans and a lot would answer that they like the fact that they are more "free" and "open minded". There's a bunch of videos like that on youtube [1][2]. Nowadays I don't think people would say the same stuff[3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gqXLxCU-fY

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_E38TJpU6Q&t=451s

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlu624glKw&t=432s

it doesn't matter. chinese citizen opinion doesn't matter to the chinese govt. Western companies lose by trying to play fair against the chinese companies. This is all in accordance with game theory. By trying to be nice, we will be wiped out. The only choice we have now is to fight dirty like them.

You may be surprised to find out how much Chinese citizen opinions matter to the Chinese Govt. State-sponsored censorship (like the one in RPC) exists to meddle with public opinions. Denial of access to information is a mean, not an end. Artificial consents are being manufactured via the media on both sides. Just done differently, largely because one way is more cost-efficient and cost-effective than the other in terms of the place’s GPD per capital.

$10,262 [65th in the world] vs $65,111 [7th] (IMF, 2019)

Regimes collapse due to their people’s will.

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