> Its first two articles state why China is purposely obfuscating WGS-84 data, and in brief, they state that the law was formulated to:

> 1. Promote the development of surveying and mapping in the service of national economic construction.

In other words, a senior party member's brother-in-law runs a civil engineering firm that, by pure coincidence, happens to offer a surveying service.

No one does regulatory capture better than a planned economy.