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A reason why the European Union could use this to their advantage is by privileging a more 'nationalistic' approach to Internet business. The Great Firewall of China indeed cuts the country out of many creative endeavors, but it allowed national businesses to gain a tremendous amount of momentum: Baidu, JD, Alibaba, those are enormous economically, create many jobs and grow fast. Now the EU does not have the amount of consumers China does, but it has a lot of experts and quality in innovation and prosperity that much of the world does not. Not to mention, with the current state of economy v. politics, a lot of American corporations seek to move to the EU. On top of securing the interests of European businesses, this could be the final straw to make reluctant American ones move here instead.