It's an inevitable reaction on the CyberFlag initiative.
As it was described in 2020 or 2021 (before the current events, but after the known POTUS election discussions) in a dedicated interview on the purely pro-Western Russian-speaking youtube channel (can't recall now), it's an initiative of splitting of the world-wide internet into the well-protected cyberfortress for the Western and pro-Western countries, and other for others.
As it was described, the former ones will be well-protected from the latter ones, have their internal cyberjob market, resources, and so on, unreachable from the other countries.
As China mostly has its own toy box, and probably would be keeping that course, probably it was predictable since 2020, just with the question of timeline.
So, probably there will be bridges, but it's unclear if there will be something to watch for free on that side of the wall.