I arrived 20 minutes after the listed showtime last night and thought I was just on time, but the movie didn’t start for another 10 minutes. I thought it was just a glitch, but now it all "makes sense"

Nah, that's not because China doesn't want to make friends with rich countries. Instead, those countries are already friends of USA. China doesn't have to many options. If you look at those friends of China, they all take money from China. Of course China is not stupid and just gives free money to someone else. For example, their infrastructures, e.g. roads, railways, telecommunications, are built by China. That's how Huawei, ZTE grew. All government contracts. Oh, BTW, China construction companies are also building US infrastructure. LIRR is the one.

Why didn't you say Tokyo Olympics were same?

However, if someone is related to China, what you said is totally pointless. People would like to see that. The reason is pretty simple: Chinese people are not qualified to be human.

GFW started with DNS filtering...

The GFW can only filter out (reset) connection from inside to outside...Technically it is not that firewall.

there are always people care. they just cannot speak out because they would be criticized to outcast.

When will it come to master degree?

I agree, especially the last paragraph. Those people cannot care less about the conditions for the Uighurs. They just expect to use this as a chessman to break China internally. Their thought is, all western companies boycott Xinjiang cotton, such that Xinjiang cotton will not be sold well, then the workers in Xinjiang will lose their jobs. As a result, the whole society will become unstable, giving those people chances to take actions (e.g. color revolution).

The last two sentences stated the real reason. There are already people dead because of a similar thing by Baidu.

Wait, isn't it what China did a year ago?!

The performance of the website is sooo poor...

Nah. Western governments would claim China stole the technique of digital currency from western countries, and start to ban them.