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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by FabHK on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:36PM (#15334380)
Not entirely implausible. That's in a sense what they did after they sent out Admiral Zheng He with a fleet of ships and thousands of men in the early 15th centuryas far as East Africa - they concluded "meh, nothing interesting there", and shut down the whole program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by vorg on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:35PM (#15335515)
The funding for Zheng He's voyages was pulled because Ming China needed the resources to defend against renewed attacks from the north, i.e. Mongolia and Siberia. Because Britain is an easily defended island and the Iberian peninsula has the Pyrenee mountains acting as a defensive wall, England and Spain didn't have this type of problem when they sent out their fleets.
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Re:China Blocks WhatsApp by lookACamel on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:36AM (#15348171)
What about the Dutch?
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