I feel like that is expected. Uber can't win China if they don't want it too. The Chinese state and people naturally want to produce this service (and others, i.e. search engine) themselves, they don't need or want foreign companies taking their market.
People are going to find a way to do/make drugs. If it is not reddit it will be somewhere else. I think the 'drugs are bad' is a ploy to get an american company out of Russia