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Re:All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get so... by jiaweihli on Thursday May 08, 2014 @04:04PM (#7717356)
Despite this poster's argumentative tone, they speak the truth. The tech scene in China is pretty limited due to tremendous government influence / interference. Heck, step 1 of setting up a foreign company in China is to bribe local authorities to poke a hole in the Great Firewall so it stops throttling your new office's VPNs.
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Re:All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get so... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 08, 2014 @07:05PM (#7718280)
> China is to bribe local authorities to poke a hole in the Great Firewall so it stops throttling your new office's VPNs.

Getting a direct line to the outside internet doesn't require bribing an official, nor is it illegal for a company to have a connection that doesn't go through the GFW (at least right now).

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