On the first point:  For the average Chinese person, simply having an awareness of government censorship is <i>a good thing</i>.  Google is taking this away.  The censorship isn't perfect... for example how many times do you think the full WikiPedia is brought into China on laptops every day?  I'd guess dozens per day.  Google is suffering the "Napster Problem", they are easily vulnerable to a centralized attack (in this case blocking IPs)... but before and after Napster people still got all the illicit mp3s they wanted.<p>On the second point, the economic argument would be: If China were not subsidizing its export industry, the dollars currently used to buy US Treasuries would have likely been spent on useful goods and services.  Instead, it effectively sat idle and could not be used to invest in infrastructure, etc.  You can point to the result and say it worked, but China has a natural competitive advantage in manufacturing, so it's hard to say how much benefit the policy caused; the harm is easier to imagine.<p>(China probably has some sensible reasons for promoting mercantilist policies, but it's inevitable that they lower prosperity over all and amount to a transfer from one group within china to another.  This is the same sort of tradeoff we experience it the US with a wide variety of policies, notably agriculture policy).