How Headaches Are Piling Up for China’s Mighty Tech Firms

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It's part of a broader campaign to curb the growing power of internet titans from Jack Ma's Ant and Alibaba to Tencent and Meituan since late 2020.

China Hangzhou Didi Chuxing

China’s government has again stunned investors and tech industry players in past weeks, ordering Didi Global Inc. to delist post-haste from New York in a move unprecedented for a company of its size. That caps a singular year in which Beijing unleashed a plethora of regulations that — among other things — threatened to obliterate much of the country's $100 billion online education sector, cripple the gaming industry and upend business models across the internet industry.

Didi's Nasdaq Exit: Headaches Pile Up for China's Mighty Tech Firms

China’s government has again stunned investors and tech industry players in past weeks, ordering Didi Global Inc. to delist post-haste from New York in a move unprecedented for a company of its size. That caps a singular year in which Beijing unleashed a plethora of regulations that — among other things — threatened to obliterate much of the country's $100 billion online education sector, cripple the gaming industry and upend business models across the internet industry.

How Headaches Are Piling Up for China’s Mighty Tech Firms

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