The reality is someone have pay for those beautiful infrastructure, not going to be the incumbents due to political arrangment, then it’s the vulnerable newcomers shouldering all of it. Just think about those terrifying condo prices.
I think it’s not just foreigers with unfavorable origins, in their speaking of ideology/regime/path confidence, anyone not subscribing and contributing to the greater good, foreigners or not, are not welcomed and supposed to stay and share the pie.
The regime has trumpeted the superiority of their political and governing system since the second month of covid-19, in
stark
contrast to the decadent and degenerate
west, daily
news started with data of how many more thousands died in the US.
That’s a good 2 whole years on
a
roll, no matter how illogical it seemed, it worked.
The CCP way is making you do thing out of your own volition so that they can always be the nice guy, they never banned US companies, they just made them extremely uncomfortable to operate so they quit themselves.
Amazon sellers are actually researching the market and designing new products, which
can't be said about domestic Chinese brands and sellers that are mired in cutthroat price dogfights.
The profits maybe not be that big, but big enough to drive a skeleton team, make a small fortune. One item with $500 a day in revenue can let you make more money than a typical coder.
From the party's view, although e-commerce helped in driving down consumer prices despite sky-high inequality and property speculation (much to the party's plan and advantage), he should remain manageble and of use.
The principle is simple for any entity (and a wild west capitalism stint too), when the party need you, you give them your best, and when they don't, according to their grand plan, you must sacrifice without a word.
Nothing is more important than the safety of the party and the ruling class.
The property market is way over-priced during the fast and furious two-decades quest to blow a credit tsunami.
Now that the credit tsunami looks to inexorablly ebb under its own weight, a looming population implosion, the party will have to prevent a collective cashing-out from the speculators they once rolled out the red carpet for. esp. in the form of offshore currency.
By trapping them in, to keep people from panic dumping.
COVID measures made WeChat a must have for anyone except toddlers, since you need to show your green COVID qr code to enter public spaces, and almost any Chinese had done one if not daily obligatory mass testing, in which various WeChat applets are required.
You can live perfectly fine without it before, buy you simply can't legally live in China without a working, updated and ready-to-open WeChat now, since last year.
The CCP also did their whole national census on a WeChat applet, it's the defacto governing tool.
You are shut out, and with the latest CCP censorship measures you are forbidden to creat accounts "web-wide".
So I guess you should just keep your mouth shut other than harmonious online activities to avoid that doomsday situation, like me, I never use WeChat or Weibo to do anything other than keeping in basic touch, since you don't know which mundane word would become sensitive, trigger the censors and get you banned, there's no appeal.
The Android Wechat app came bundled with a years-old fork of webview, coz the Android scene is a total mess, various vendors not only never update their system apps, but actually substitute it with their custom versions, this made it unusable and a “Chinese Webview” necessary, so wechat got one, all of Tencent's services use it plus plenty of third party apps, since almost every Android 5+ phone has the latest WeChat and their WebView fork.
So this situation almost made their platform mentality an inevitabily, now they only need to define a set of principles for then to be a mobile OS.
I'd say their applet thing can do 99% of the things a standalone app could, but the development speed , reach and functionality you can get is unmatched, best of all, it's the one true unified cross platform OS: on Android, iOS and Windows, but Chinese market only.