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Doing anything the Chinese government doesn’t like is not advised, given it will soon be the most valuable consumer market in the world, and Uber has a multi-billion dollar stake in Didi Chuxing.

You can play games with the European and American systems since their rules are slow to change and predictable.

You cannot play games with China. They will kill your business and access to their market on a whim, and will send your Chinese employees and their families to labor camps (I’m not exaggerating, this has happened a lot).

Hence why Apple is forced to look like a massive hypocrite whenever they talk about privacy, because they have no such protections for their users in China.



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