Not the first time something like this has happened. Both Google and Apple bow to the Chinese authorities every single time
Well Google once stopped working on that dragonfly project because of the growing discontent within it's employees. And the bad pr the whole affair was giving them.
CCP authorities were displeased and closed Google's office in China.
You can rest assured that if Google hadn't been caught they would have gone through with that internet censorship program.
I don't like Marxism in any way but Marx was right when he said that the capitalist would sell the rope that would hang him. Silicon valley? Wall Street? Yep.
The CCP never reformed as was taunted by the Clinton's and mass media when they let China in the wto in the 90s. I remember clearly that's what was sold to the public when people complained that we were letting in an authoritarian borderline genocidal regime (Tibet). No they would change they said.
Wrong.
So wrong.
A monster has been created.
A monster with a massive surveillance apparatus the stasi and kgb would have had wet dreams about.
Opaque economy whose numbers are made up.
A government with leaders for life.
A government allowing fentanyl factories to ship their drugs to their'trading partners' (Canada and the USA).
All in the name of trade and economic opportunities.