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The US has permanently lost China's technologists and entrepreneurs at this point. I'm seeing people in the tech industry advocating for Facebook to get secondary sanctions from China - as in, companies which operate in China are not allowed to do business with Facebook. Presumably, this would mean Apple and Google (via Android)...


Facebook is banned in China...

> The US has permanently lost China's technologists and entrepreneurs at this point.

What? We never had them. China's economy is closed and state-controlled.


> China's economy is closed

Well except Tesla and ExxonMobil just setup their WOFE in China.


Google doesn’t operate in China. Chinese Android phones have no Google Play services. They use AOSP.


Google works with tons of Chinese phone vendors to get Android on phones worldwide.


I don't think it will be effective to do this secondary sanctions. If Chinese company want to sell aboard then Facebook isn't something easy to circumvent. And they can always go to Singapore to do business with it, or find agency there. It is will be hard for government to monitor such activities.

Facebook by all means is already banned.


Websites blocked in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

The point of this reply is not to pass judgement on this action. The point is that plenty of business is done between China and America despite the ban. Plenty of business will continue after TikTok.




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