'The great firewall of china' isn't someone manually inspecting every byte that enters and leaves china, it can manage more than a 1mb transaction just fine. And, even if the delays were more than minuscule, how does it favour one side over the other? Both sides have the same delay.
Plus there's no congestion on the network right now. There's not a scaling problem. It was spam.
Woohoo! No need for anyone to do anything then. Remind me again why everyone is trying to scale bitcoin?
You don't even seem to understand what we are talking about (not 1mb transactions) and you're flat out wrong. I have direct experience with a p2p network that I have built, and the problems getting blocks between nodes on opposite sides of the "Great Firewall of China". Really any engineer with an understanding of that system and P2P networks should understand why.
Everyone is trying to scale bitcoin because bitcoin is growing dramatically... that doesn't mean that the "full blocks" and "high fees" we saw recently weren't due to spam.
Plus there's no congestion on the network right now. There's not a scaling problem. It was spam.
Woohoo! No need for anyone to do anything then. Remind me again why everyone is trying to scale bitcoin?