What Makes China Stand Out From the West?

i think what makes china really stand out from the west is the concentration of all that data in the hands of one entity, which is the party. They were actually enlisting the help of american technology companies like cisco and son micro systems ay sort of figure out how to control the internet. Even back then, they were looking for contractors to help them build a national idea data base,. The idea was to sort of have this, ou know, man's visibility into the population.