It is obvious the gov is going after foreigners with a different standard that isn't applied to Chinese companies. I can't read the article however, since nytimes is blocked in China.
I know the US government is 100x transparent than the Chinese government on these things, which still might not be good enough, but we are talking about different worlds here.
> “It does seem that foreign firms are the subject of a disproportionate share of China’s new enthusiasm for competition policy.”
Have there been recent antitrust enforcement actions against domestic companies?
> “If China is going to be the third leg in the global antitrust regime, along with the U.S. and the E.U., and that’s clearly coming, then the key question is, What sort of approach is China going to take?”
As with all Chinese press articles, you'll have to read this understanding that there isn't a lot of context being communicated (I call it "passive defensive"). Basically, you are a domestic company, complain to a regulator about a foreign company, and they'll go after them for you.
Awesome. Microsoft is proven to be a monopoly that practices unfair business practices. If any nation was serious about antitrust, Microsoft would be dismantled. The price fixing China penalized other companies for was real. Of course, state-owned businesses in China must be unfair monopolies in many cases, right?
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 34.0 ms ] threadHave there been recent antitrust enforcement actions against domestic companies?
> “If China is going to be the third leg in the global antitrust regime, along with the U.S. and the E.U., and that’s clearly coming, then the key question is, What sort of approach is China going to take?”
Excellent question. It would be helpful if NYT reviewed the differences between US and EU policy, as well as normalization efforts like TTIP, http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/tti...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-08/11/content_182839...
As with all Chinese press articles, you'll have to read this understanding that there isn't a lot of context being communicated (I call it "passive defensive"). Basically, you are a domestic company, complain to a regulator about a foreign company, and they'll go after them for you.