Quite the fascinating story, I dig up a bit more: https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsansons00sansuoft/page/...
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I wish someone would actually invest in competing product, with less censorship and no braindead mods.
Oh, what a surprise, so communism do not work in real life and Government is not your friend? Shocker.
Communist China is still in recession and as manufacturing keeps exiting to India and other places, Chinese market won't be that attractive anytime soon.
No wonder real Chinese (Taiwanese) companies want backup plants elsewhere and are not interested into selling-off to failing dystopian dictatorships.