China is a huge country with a huge tech presence that many of us are exposed to. I don’t know of many tech startups in Kashmir, Iraq, Sudan, Turkey, I guess others are similar, so they don’t get as much attention here.

Furthermore, there's so much technology being utilized in this conflict. The GFW, social credit scores, facial recognition, an army of censors policing chat rooms... there's a lot of dystopian science fiction materializing here. Some of it using technologies that "we" are familiar with or even work on.