What the real purpose of their firewall is for is debatable. You can't just assume it's purely for control. Control of course is also justifiable in some times and unjustifiable in others, much like how the Democratic National Committee instituted Super Delegates when they found out straight up voting threatened the party leadership's hold on power.
> Well, don't forget that China has been ready and willing to take the benefits of global trade when it suits them. 'We don't want aggressive imperialistic foreign multinationals coming in and bullying our poor domestic companies...', but sure, we'll take all of yor technology, programming languages, operating systems, do literally nothing to stop piracy of Microsoft software...
If you're talking about one-sided business deals, well, it's pretty stupid for multinationals to do that isn't it? They certainly aren't forcing multinationals to do that, but those multinationals obviously calculated the cost-benefits and determined they'd still benefit to doing business under the sovereign rules China imposed.
The difference when multinationals or foreign nationals wanting China to open up to their terms is that these terms are forced upon China and dictated. Fortunately for China it's powerful enough to simply ignore these demands.
> Well, don't forget that China has been ready and willing to take the benefits of global trade when it suits them. 'We don't want aggressive imperialistic foreign multinationals coming in and bullying our poor domestic companies...', but sure, we'll take all of yor technology, programming languages, operating systems, do literally nothing to stop piracy of Microsoft software...
If you're talking about one-sided business deals, well, it's pretty stupid for multinationals to do that isn't it? They certainly aren't forcing multinationals to do that, but those multinationals obviously calculated the cost-benefits and determined they'd still benefit to doing business under the sovereign rules China imposed.
The difference when multinationals or foreign nationals wanting China to open up to their terms is that these terms are forced upon China and dictated. Fortunately for China it's powerful enough to simply ignore these demands.