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Or it's actually just some benign thing because you haven't posted any evidence which says that the .gsX files are even malicious or caused by Chinese apps. I've been googling for it and haven't found any serious documentation about it. A reddit post linking it with Hotels.com (American company, lmao) and an LTT thread linking it to Ladaza (a Filipino app). In the absence of more and better proof, I'm not even convinced that it's an exploit.
And again. You claimed that ALL Chinese apps ask for IMEI permissions. No proof of that either. It's all just made up horse shit to justify your vibes based racism about how Chinese people can't code.
None of this is consistent with the link I provided so it's your word and anecdote against the professionally prepared page and its supporting citations.
It's not that they can't code, it's that they're coding in isolation. They don't have experience in using Android apps designed for foreign countries because they're literally blocked to do so. They see all apps are spyware in disguise and think it's totally ok to do so.
It's not a coincidence that Google play banned pinduoduo because it used forbidden ways to track users. Or the DJI app, banned from Google play too.
This policy only hurt themselves and it's undeniable. Like that time Tencent accidentally included literal malware in an iOS app because a dev downloaded an infected version of xcode from a random Chinese website instead of apple.com (accessing any website hosted outside the country is super slow)
PS read this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-05/03/content_25014998.htm
A meter to calculate how much you need to pay for a life saving vehicle is something you would expect in the USA, not in a "communist" country. Where is the standard of equality between all the citizens if only the rich can afford to get to the hospital? Isn't this capitalism? For reference, the article mentions 3600 yuan the shandong woman had to pay to transport her father to the hospital equals to 2 months of salary.