China is a totalitarian regime?
I suppose its quite easy to get 1.3 billion people to all march in lock step.....
Seriously, though, its not the equipment that poses a problem but how its configured and used. I know that we are used to running our personal kit with software that's doing Heaven only knows what with the hardware (in the furtherance of 'enhanced consumer experience' and 'monetizing websites') but in the professional world people like to have rather more control over what their kit is doing.