It is currently part of the PRC, because the PRC is the only legitimate government of all of China, and that includes Taiwan.
It is valid, however, to say that the PRC government has never governed Taiwan.
Still, China is the sign in the UN, and it was the ROC that sat behind is, but they were replaced by the PRC. When that happened, China did not suddenly get smaller by one island. In fact, both ROC and PRC agreed that China included Taiwan, and it's why both aren't part of the UN, like the two Korea are.

That's an underestimate, imo. You'd get more than that for it on Ebay, for sure.

Casual thought: imagine the hoo-ha if this was from a Chinese satellite.

I miss the Inbox UI. That was the last time I used my Google email address in anger. I might even have been tempted to drop my for-£ fastmail subscription. When they dropped Inbox, I upped my fastmail plan instead.

There's one feature that is valuable, though, and that is the integrated translation feature. It is very convenient. Not for me, but for a family member. It's difficult to find in the UI, but that's Gmail for you.

Longest running?
I've used an email service since before Gmail and it has always worked well.

Is it free? I thought their motivation was mining your email for data to use to feed your ads. That data is valuable.

Yup. That's why I voted "no*.

The USA isn't significant enough to force a sale, imo.

New *slower* systems, perhaps.

No. Stones (and the remainder pounds) are only for human weight.
Use of pounds for the weight of anything else has long been defunct in the UK. I can't think of any exceptions - maybe there are some. Even for human weight, its use is fading out in favour of kg.

And, no, they should not get the contract for new NHS digitisation that was being touted by the PM recently.

> Their citizens have ZERO freedom of expression/speech

Be careful. Your ignorance is showing. You clearly know nothing about what living in China is like and the freedoms in the country.

Nb Slashdot itself is a social media platform of sorts (though I've yet to see anyone use any of those features). It discusses fervently anti-China topics such as this and many others, including the obvious ones. Slashdot isn't blocked by the GFW and anyone in mainland China can take part in the discussions.

Also, it's perfectly possible to use Google, Facebook, twitter/X or anything else from within mainland China - yes, without a vpn. This is because not all internet connections have the GFW applied to them. The GFW is more of a mechanism to make the services a pita to access and use for the majority of Internet connections and so not be commercially viable. What does that tell you about the use of the word "banned" and the legality of using those services from with mainland China?

Tiktok ARE doing something different in the USA than other social media sites. They're doing a lot more do comply with the demands made of it and the concerns rooted in blatant sinophobia or Mccarthyism. They've gone over and above, but it isn't enough and wasn't ever going to be. It was always going to boil down to being Chinese, and the demand would be to not be.
The USA government has just shown how pathetic it is and how meaningless its constitution is. However, they've done that numerous times in the past so no surprise there, I suppose.

On the mainland anyway... I hear HK was hit.

Having said that, the ordering system used in mainland China is fairly dysfunctional on the best of days. Well, you can order OK, and you get your stuff, but the screen that says if your order is queued or ready to pickup has (to my memory) never worked. The orders spend a licosecond on the queuing side and then go straight to the ready side.
If that is used for some kind of performance metric, then they are all doing very well (to quote Mr Grace).

Is that as bad as Fujitsu (icl?) and the horizon scandal?

This isn't the first, so you could easily look at any of the other many installations around the world and come up with some reasonable guesses.