What makes WeChat so much better than other messaging apps?

It’s almost as hard for Chinese companies to break out of the country as it is for Western companies to break into it, which is why there are so many massive companies that dominate a specific market in China but have next to zero success outside of the country. WeChat is the perfect example of this, because it completely dominates the Chinese messaging app market that so many other companies have tried and failed to break in to, but why is this so common? Well, there are several reasons for this, but a lot of it boils down to one thing: the Chinese government.