There is certainly a push to use websites and infrastructure hosted in China. As it's no surprise a number of non-China popular websites don't even resolve properly from a DNS perspective there. So for most of the population the sites just don't exist.
"Wow, Chinese websites are so much more responsive than American ones. I guess we're really far ahead of them in internet speed and usability."
Rather than "ah, there goes the government throttling foreign websites again."