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What differentiates China’s Big Tech antitrust challenges from those of Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple
Technology giants around the world are facing increasingly higher regulatory barriers to expansion. Long uneasy with monopolies, governments and consumers in North America, Europe and now in China have pushed back against Big Tech's increasing concentration of market power.
China's attempts to rein in the nation's home-grown technology champions culminated last weekend in the record 18.2 billion yuan (US$2.8 billion) antitrust fine against this newspaper's owner Alibaba Group Holding. Alibaba's fintech affiliate Ant Group was brought in line to be regulated as a bank, followed in quick succession by dozens of tech companies - with the combined market value bigger than the UK's economy - pledging their adherence to China's antitrust regulations.