china-based cloud providers would be perfect for me, many offer private sla, no data retention, and they have everything you could want.

sounds basic but the problem for me is that the internet law in china is very restrictive.

on top of that, in the uk and in china, the government will lock you in a cage unless you give them the encryption keys.

so if i was using alibaba cloud, i would have to play hopscotch trying not to tread on various legal landmines and it's not so attractive for me.