Beyond the copycats: Things I learned about China Internet
I would not trust her main point &quot;China is far beyond copying the West.&quot; for 3 reasons:<p>1.Everything on China is in the end Central planned, an article that criticize anything about the Govertment-country and you are out of business, so when writing people auto censor itself in the bad things, over extend in the good things.<p>Of course Chinese Internet services are better than those from the US in China. Most of them work at Kbits&#x2F;second if they work at all.<p>2.The person that writes this is in a privilege position, e.g when I was living and working on China I lived much better there that in Europe, so of course she believes everything is fantastic.<p>3.She is Chinese national. Just watch CCTV for five minutes on a song festival and you will start hearing songs about how great the Chines army is. In China you are surrounded by this stuff all day. Like advertisements most people believe they are not affected by it, but it is pervasive and it does affect you after a long exposure.<p>I consider Chinese central planned system poisonous for innovation, specially: &quot;Chinese companies are fierce and grow out of alkaline land&quot;.<p>What the last statement means is that Chinese companies have absolutely no ethics, and in the end everything is about knowing-buying the people in power because those people will remove your taxes or give you the permit or credit or anything you need(and you need anything they want you to need or else...).<p>In China you have to share your innovations with other companies, this makes your bargaining power near zero while the company with more direct line with power gets the profit.