Rare to see such quality of analysis on China's domestic policy in todays febrile media environment. We could have saved time by paying closer attention to what CPC itself says it is doing rather than to assume obscurantism and then try to 'read the tea leaves'.

China's big tech crackdown is explicitly designed to reallocate resources (human / financial capital) away from consumer software, which the CPC considers frivolous, socially corrosive and therefore 'threatening stability' and back toward industrial science - semiconductors, AI, biotech, EV, material science - strategically critical technologies for national security in light of today's hostile global environment.

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It's called due diligence. And it's what press is for, their bread and butter, is what they do... in democracies anyway.

reflexive skepticism is a form a credulity. Due diligence requires analysis of primary sources fairly critiqued, rather acceptance mediated interpretations. The is true irrespective of political system of either party