Being from india, i have come to the opposite conclusion.<p>Chinese protectionism (aided by the language barrier) has served chinese entrepreneurs quite well.<p>They have their own google. Their own fb. Their own twitter. Basically all services that India doesnt have. The list goes on. These services may or may not be inferior to the original but from an economic standpoint, its good since the money and data flows within the economy instead of going abroad.<p>India has its own taxi service but they are getting severe competition from uber (with rumours floating of a possible buyout by uber). We have flipkart but they are getting pummelled by amazon (which just walked in late to the indian ecommerce market after flipkart laid all the groundwork) and was recently down-valued by investors.<p>China is also successfully exporting to india- chinese smartphones are doing very well, much better than Apple.