Chinese devs I know are pretty versed with the rest of the world's developer community. Probably because they have to, it is way to get knowledge and acknowledgement.
One thing that is distinctly and decisively different though, is the cloud provider. AWS/Azure are operating under constraint there. While Alibaba Cloud is close copy of AWS, it is not quite the same thing, and indeed is developing into its own ecosystem focus on wholesale solution other than being the build block of internet.
With ongoing trade war and Huawei's sanctions, expecting Chinese government put raising domestic technology industry that mirrors to US technology at its highest priority.
One thing that is distinctly and decisively different though, is the cloud provider. AWS/Azure are operating under constraint there. While Alibaba Cloud is close copy of AWS, it is not quite the same thing, and indeed is developing into its own ecosystem focus on wholesale solution other than being the build block of internet.
With ongoing trade war and Huawei's sanctions, expecting Chinese government put raising domestic technology industry that mirrors to US technology at its highest priority.