Yeah but Chinese Internet/tech companies seem to be in recess nowadays with Xi Jinpings new crackdowns and desire to favour more state owned companies , since he views Private companies as too independent from the party and state companies to be better since they are controlled by the Party and heed their every call, compared to private companies who have their own priorities and interests they go after.
The crackdown is killing the entrepreneurial drive that made China a tech power and destroying jobs that used to attract the country’s brightest.
www.nytimes.com
Guess we will see in a few years where China's biggest tech/Internet companies will fare and if they can rise back up from this new atmosphere especially If this downward trajectory will carry on due to the new suppressive environment, unlike before where they were growing so big as to even expand abroad and challenge US biggest companies globally, now they have been receeding themselves back into their home shelter, halting any international expansions , laying off staffs, changing leaderships/CEOs and laying low for fear of standing out touch too much and facing crackdown even more.
Seems government is also sending mixed signals and uncertainty which is never good for private businesses. Since most times even the censorship laws they enact is not always very clear and precise and can open to vague interpretations, hence it makes companies even reluctant or scared to create some certain type of products or industry for fear of censorship/retribution. I think government ought to make the rules clear. Except their aim is to cut down private enterprises down to shape , then that will make sense.
Yes agree. Funny thing is that the only Chinese global brand that has succeeded in having a global presence and household name globally and be able to challenge established US private tech internet companies worlwide is TIKTOK owned by bytedance which funny enough IS A PRIVATE CHINESE COMPANY, nor a state owned one. Same with other Chinese companies who are relatively successful abroad like Xioami, Oppo, Huawei (pre US sanctions .lol ), Hisense, DJI , etc etc. They are all private companies.
Let's see how state owned Chinese tech companies will fare globally since it seems the government wants to push those forward instead . Lol