>For years China has banned systems and applications from other parts of the world.

That statement is a lie. Not a single one of those companies are banned in China, they voluntarily choose to not operate there, mostly due to them not wanting to comply to draconian Chinese laws. In Netflix's case they simply don't want to compete against the local streaming market.

Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Intel, AMD, Cisco, etc are just some of the big techs that's doing very well in China.

It's hard to have a genuine discussion when people are intentionally spreading misinformation.

You're not banned from my house, but if you come to visit, you're required to beat my children.

Cisco: "Don't mind if I do!"

We're not a communist dictatorship.

Political structure has nothing to do with the economics of the situation: one country has access two large markets, the other to only one. Which do you think will succeed in the long run economically?

Well, that helped, thanks for stating the obvious.

Neither is China

It's literally run by the CCP in an authoritarian regime (i.e. dictatorship).

if normal people can participate in government, is that still a dictatorship? there is a standard way in which chinese people can become a government official if they choose to.

To answer your question: yes, and it has always been the case. Participation in government isn’t the same as consenting to or choosing who governs.

There is a standard way to join a street gang. That doesn't meant that the street gang rules the neighborhood according to a representative democracy, under which people have constitutional rights.

Be like China!