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This is a continuous pain in the ass when it comes to navigating Chinese webpages, I’d love to know the real motives behind barring google services (albeit intermittently), since it flies in the face of supporting international trade. I’ve switched to using the Bing translate plugin, which is ample enough for any banking etc. online, but damn does Bing suck generally.
Let’s be honest, promoting fairness or international trade is something that China laughs at. They care about growing the domestic economy and enriching Chinese businesses. One of the ways they do that is by blocking foreign competitors from doing business in China, opening the door for domestic copycats like Baidu to make billions of dollars. Barring foreign competitors enables inferior domestic rivals unfettered access to the largest and potentially most lucrative internet market in the world.
Expats in China are probably a significant portion of the Bing user base. Who else would possibly even have a reason to use Bing?