news China to block individual access to VPNs - The Great Firewall

I'm no expert but wouldn't that block all forms of digital money laundering ?

With VPN Chinese could buy and sell crypto and domains with relative anonymity.

But the Chinese gov has just as many hacker types on payroll as the USA. Not really sure how effective vpns were in the first place?

This is the reason why I am not too worried about China overtaking the West economically.
They already have huge social and environment problems.
There are so many restrictions hindering creativity.
The level of surveillance and social control is very high (unless you live in the country side).
Remember, China is still nominally communist.
Operating a business is hard when you have to cope with countless regulations and you cannot even search freely for information. Businesses need VPNs just to interact with clients and suppliers abroad and connect with the rest of the world.
When the government constantly interferes with your day to day operations, your competitiveness suffers.
It's hard to have a strong degree of economic development with zero freedom.

This happens every year they "clamp down" on VPNs. But actually many dont know that bigger businesses and those who have "guanxi" (connections) have access to dedicated lines with no restrictions or vpns built into them from the government telecom companies. The other well of have or are cycling vpns which is pain in the ass but works "ok". The tech wise are on shadow socks.

Look it's a complex country with complex traditions.

And to say it's easier to operate a business in west is a half truth. If you operate a small business in Guangdong the things you can do with small money and the dynamism at the marketplaces are amazing, no place like that in US or Europe for sure.

Although I've heard the that they significantly started turning inward during Uncle Xi

Kate said:

This is the reason why I am not too worried about China overtaking the West economically.
They already have huge social and environment problems.
There are so many restrictions hindering creativity.
The level of surveillance and social control is very high (unless you live in the country side).
Remember, China is still nominally communist.
Operating a business is hard when you have to cope with countless regulations and you cannot even search freely for information. Businesses need VPNs just to interact with clients and suppliers abroad and connect with the rest of the world.
When the government constantly interferes with your day to day operations, your competitiveness suffers.
It's hard to have a strong degree of economic development with zero freedom.

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Chinese go mostly to bbs sites in China to chat , post, and shop. It's so 1980's lol

Avtar629 said:

Chinese go mostly to bbs sites in China to chat , post, and shop. It's so 1980's lol

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Knowing that you are Chinese, you love your motherland very much, you are too young, a lot of things do not understand, he is right.

Kate said:

This is the reason why I am not too worried about China overtaking the West economically.
They already have huge social and environment problems.
There are so many restrictions hindering creativity.
The level of surveillance and social control is very high (unless you live in the country side).
Remember, China is still nominally communist.
Operating a business is hard when you have to cope with countless regulations and you cannot even search freely for information. Businesses need VPNs just to interact with clients and suppliers abroad and connect with the rest of the world.
When the government constantly interferes with your day to day operations, your competitiveness suffers.
It's hard to have a strong degree of economic development with zero freedom.

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What you said is very correct. If China has the freedom and openness of the United States, there is no problem beyond the United States because the Chinese are very smart.

Most of the time China government keep blocking proxy IPS and VPN . But China users some how able to access websites like Facebook and Google. I am not sure why they block it. May be for people health and economy . Not sure though.

the more control , the worst it get to any internet business related trading

in europe they have gone full retard, going full communist on the internet and imposed the GDRP & co,
laws written by dumb retard cee politician, who never had any real job in their life, and who can sell a glass of water in the desert to save their life
result = huge negative impact on all European eCommerce

any political control that empower themselves to take control of the way the internet trading work, is a big blow to free trade, and to the freedom of people