The rest of the world, which to the most part does not include China, uses American apps; Google, Twitter Facebook, Uber, and their associated services, and among many other super apps by Western tech corporations are absent in China. This is not new information, and it does not mean that the Chinese are locked out from the benefits of these services because the world’s most populous country replicates or clones such tools for its natives.
Case in point here is Uber, which, as said, is not available in China. However, there is Didi, which offers the same services as the American super-app, and is huge by all standards, including it being listed in the U.S. just the other day.
Didi has since been ordered off app stores by Beijing following issues related to the collection and use of customer data.
Here is the statement that was issued by the Nation Internet Information Office in China:
According to the report, after…