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Not really. If you look at Baidu, the company formed because Google left/was kicked out. China is a tightly controlled market because of the banning culture. That's why, they had to build everything from scratch, their own OSes, routers, phones, car, electric cars, AI etc.

Also they are opaque because no copyright law exists and it is too big of a market that other countries will do something offensive against it.

wecash is used as an acceptable form of currency by everyone, including Starbucks in China. That's WeChat's currency launched way back. Tencent can't repeat WeChat's success elsewhere because we have an open market and they do not.



What Chinese operating systems are there?



Right, these are just forks of existing systems with very, very trivial changes.

Do you know of any significant programming languages, libraries, or frameworks that originate from China?

Seems like most of the best Chinese software talent moves abroad. I suspect Chinese government's decision to cripple their internet plays a significant role.


Ah. In that way. True, most of the talent moves abroad. On top of my mind, Vue.js did originate from China and baidu is good at AI.




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