The culture is different, if you tried pulling any of the shit Sam and Dario do on a daily basis in China you'd get your wings clipped pretty quickly, much smarter to keep your head down as much as possible.
And maybe that's not a bad thing tbh because look at the state of the US right now
> The culture is different
That's partly. I'd say the other part is it's an open secret they have "illegal" Nvidia GPUs and other "secrets". There's a common understanding not talk about these things because it'd hurt everyone collectively.