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No this is not the right approach at all in my opinion. What stops someone from one of the countries using IP's from another? Teenagers in USA are gonna try and hack your stuff as well... I was one of them in my youth. You can't just block china and half ass your setup. You will get attacked from everywhere always. Anything you put on the internet is a target. Always has been always will be.

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> What stops someone from one of the countries using IP's from another?

That's why this approach is only really complete if supported at a national level. Cloud providers in the US shouldn't be allowing foreign actors to rent them, for instance.

But how? How can US cloud providers stop this? I am really curious how from my understanding it is not possible with how things are currently setup.

Of course it's possible: KYC. As it is, cloud providers already tend to require credit cards when setting up an account that can possibly generate any sort of billing.

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