1/18 Some local perspective on gaming regulations and "profound revolution": Tencent’s revenue growth in online games has been decreasing since 2018. Under 18 accounts for 6% of revenue. Policy restrictions on online video gamers on company fundamental is negligible. 
https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1432472071813042178
2/18 Chinese have an hour less leisure time than Americans, but gaming penetration among adults is very high, though I’m skeptical it’s 90%. The likely economic reason: Gaming, particularly online video gaming, is the CHEAP leisure option. Lux Switch/PS4 sales are rising.
3/18 Don’t be led by headlines. For the first time, E-sports will be added as official sports in the 2022 Asian Games, hosted in HangZhou, China. The host country adds sports that it’s good at to add to medal counts. sport.gov.cn/n316/n338/c973…
4/18 E-sports is stamped as official sport by General Administration of Sports of China, the bureau tasked to win medals in Olympics and Asian Games. Its website is full of E-sports news. Link in Chinese
sport.gov.cn/n316/n343/n119…
sport.gov.cn/n316/n343/n119…
5/18 In 2018 Asian Games, E-sports piloted as a
performing sport, and team China won 2 golds and 1 silver.
performing sport, and team China won 2 golds and 1 silver.
6/18 US and China/Asia will continue to be the dominant gaming market for the next decade. Expect regulations to come often: gamingscan.com/gaming-statist…
7/18 There are differences in how the public views the government's role in people’s life between China/Asia and US. To leave out the complexity of US-China politics, use Singapore as an example.
8/18 Singapore’s government only allowed soft background music, not loud or live music, in some areas because it worried that loud music will cause people to talk loudly, which increases the risk of Covid droplet spread? Yes, it’s true. moh.gov.sg/news-highlight…
9/18 In Asia and China, the government’s role in an individual’s life is much more involved. This is not to say the Chinese government’s many recent abrupt policies are in any way good. It quietly acknowledges the bad policy process by firing the education minister.
10/18 But that when analyzing Chinese regulations, a significant number of abrupt policies generally has little effect on the ground because the government needs to be seen that it is doing something while the public generally understood it is thunder but not rain .
11/18 On the opinion piece with "profound revolution" in China. In the limited spectrum of Chinese public opinion, there is a fraction that could be classified as “extreme Chinese left wing,” who miss the glory days of "equality" under Mao.
12/18 As China’s inequality has indeed significantly increased, they have a non-significant following. Their writing style is also easy to spot in Chinese, which uses extremely emotional and grand phrases that bring back memories of cultural revolution.
13/18 In the day of social media, the Chinese extreme left wing voices were amplified, sometimes with official news outlets backing. The author of this specific opinion piece is a retired editor of a provincial level electricity INDUSTRY newspaper from Hubei province.
14/18 All these suggest the unlikelihood of his opinion translated into substantive policies. In Chinese, there is a phrase for these group of people and writing as “Old Retired Official” style, retired a subtle meaning of out of power.
15/18 A lot of this news is more an indicator of
dissatisfaction within the party, which the extreme left wing still has non-trivial presence.
dissatisfaction within the party, which the extreme left wing still has non-trivial presence.
16/18 Though never a good comparison, it is analogous to US extreme left wing vs. left wing political struggle spilling out into the open when primary elections are close. The effect of the actual policy implemented down the road is nowhere clear or dire.
17/18 Any given day, there are hundreds of pieces from these extreme left wing loose group circulating and occasionally it caught the attention of social media and official media.
18/18 For anyone interested in understanding this faction, here is a quick wiki on one organization of the extreme Chinese left wing that was shuttered. The government could censor, the people and power behind the pro-Mao ideas are still active. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(i…
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