I see a lot of "what did I tell you, look here, bad communist party product". But in reality most likely this startup isn't doing it out of malice. It's just one of many criteria that need to be met to do business in China. This does not lessen the achievement.
So the malice is there, it's just not the startup's malice, but the state's. Which de facto is the owner of the startup, because it's a communist state.
