Finally, it was possible to speak and text with people in China uncensored.
Unfortunately that was killed off around the end of 2021.
The CCP are paranoid about their public having unmonitored communications. In order to get rid of the CCP and nurture a rise against them from the Chinese public in China, it’s going to take us accepting that Apple are going to have to gradually relocate manufacturing to another country and service might not be possible there at some point. China’s going to get worse before it gets better.
It’s a crazy collaboration of western capitalism and eastern authoritarianism that results in the largest population on earth effectively existing in an artificial and sealed-off greenhouse-like society. You can look in from the outside but it’s a different environment entirely.
It’s like the iron curtain but instead of iron it’s plexiglas.