Yes, very well put. Data was never the end goal of the Chinese experiment. But for tech companies, data, a side-effect of China's policies, is a valuable resource that other parts of the world are becoming less open to share.
The social experiment is far from benign - it's a systemic propaganda that plays on human vulnerabilities. In addition to suppressing dissension, it also fuels China's ambitions to become The one true superpower. Taming AI is crucial to tame the world. This is a super interesting technical problem for the tech industry where they can simply push the limits to what tech can achieve without worrying about its real-world consequences. They could always go back and it's not us, it was the Chinese government.