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Tencent Q2 2021 & Co. – Big trouble in big China.

Tencent remains the most exposed to the sanctions of the state. Tencent reported regulation-blighted results and warned that there is more to come highlighting the fact that of all the...

ByteDance – Eyes and ears.

ByteDance tries to avoid harsh treatment. The Chinese government clamp-down on the technology industry is continuing as the CCP now owns a 1% holding in ByteDance giving it a board...

China vs. China – The authoritarian moment pt. III

China does the USA another favour. China’s potential crackdown on its education industry is likely to have the opposite impact of that which is desired holding back the next generation...

Tencent vs. China – The authoritarian moment pt. II.

Tencent’s treatment will help predict what happens to everyone else.  Of the two possible motivations that lie behind the increasing regulatory clampdown on the Chinese technology sector, it is the...

Didi – Blood in the water.

Sharks gather to capitalise on Didi’s woes. The brutal suspension of Didi’s app has left the door wide open for all of Didi’s previously crushed rivals to emerge and have...

ByteDance – The crown jewels.

ByteDance is not selling the crown jewels.   While it would appear that ByteDance is making its crown jewels available to all and sundry, a look through the offering reveals...

USA vs. China – The authoritarian moment.

China shoots itself in the foot.   China is moving to punish Chinese companies that are listed overseas or have large foreign shareholders in a damaging move that will ultimately...

USA vs. China – The unproductive edges.

The first battle is lost but the war has just begun. China is having a very hard time in its struggle to become technologically independent but in the long run,...

Tencent & Fintech – Hot collar.

Tencent is the acid test of CCP intent. While Alibaba, Ant Group, Meituan, and so on have all felt the wrath of the regulator (i.e. the CCP), Tencent has so...

ByteDance – Fundamental break.

ByteDance’s business model has a fundamental problem. ByteDance had its best year ever last year in terms of revenue, but because it employs over a 100,000 people, it is still...