>>105526801>How is it compared to China?China problem is not one of regulation but one of ownership: you can't really establish yourself in China without ceding 51% of your enterprise, something that has one SURE end
>they'll copy everything they can using owners privilege and either kick you out of it or create an exact copy of your business modelEU problem is not the same, it is one of overregulation. For instance, the EU reserves the right to impose supranational regulations on your business meaning even if you don't actively target their citizen, if you do business with even a single citizen of an EU member state you are on the hook to comply with EVERY SINGLE REGULATION as if your company were incorporated there.
That's one reason many japanese websites have a FIREWALL LEVEL block on EU visitors
>pic related, it's what I see when visiting https://www.yahoo.co.jpas it is not worth having to be in compliance with a foreign regulation because of seventeen visitors per month if you are not even targeting that particular market in the first place.
Long story short: unless you REALLY want to target the EU as a market it is much preferable just to block them outright