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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ... by emteycz on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:44PM (#25735209)
It was a very different country 10 years ago. It was comparable to the EU (I lived in both).
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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ... by Mediterraneo10 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:10PM (#25735757)
Even ten years ago, there were things like the Great Firewall and strict laws preventing any crowdsourced mapping on national security grounds (so OpenStreetMap never quite took off in China). Sure, things were a little freer, but China and the EU were definitely not comparable.
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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ... by emteycz on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:47AM (#25759352)
Great firewall is coming to the EU soon.
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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ... by agumonkey on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:55PM (#25735453)
What propelled such a quick and strong change ?
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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ... by SoylentYellow on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:14PM (#25735832)
Xi Jinping rising to power.
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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ... by agumonkey on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:26PM (#25737376)
somehow I thought he was in place before that.
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