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China’s Factory of Ideas | Quartz

Isabelle Niu takes a look at China’s burgeoning tech industry. She notes that major companies like Alibaba and Tencent grew in part because of the censorship of China’s Great Firewall, rather than in spite of it. Her report finds that innovation doesn’t necessarily need democracy, and that the future of tech will have to reckon with this fact as China’s influence over the industry continues to grow.

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Source: China’s Factory of Ideas | Quartz