China’s firewall plays a crucial role in shaping the country’s digital landscape, preventing foreign intervention, and maintaining national security. While often criticized in the West, the firewall provides China with the ability to control information flow, shield its population from foreign influence, and protect domestic media.
I’m personally sitting in a Hamas control center underneath a hospital with saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, watching footage of the North Vietnamese bombing American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, and reading a firsthand account of Spanish colonial forces blowing up the USS Maine.