China tech industry

The tech industry's struggles also points to deeper problems in capital allocation and consumption in China's economy.

The re-emergence of China’s “whole nation” system seems to mark a new era, where the government’s role in the tech industry is raised to a new level.

Whether future or fad, one thing is certain: China will not miss out on shaping this new ecosystem.

Systemic burdens facing rural migrants, combined with the tech sector’s exploitative tendencies, resulted in shocking working conditions for China’s couriers. Now the workers are pushing back.

Insights from Tim Rühlig.

Zhou Jiangyong was judged to have facilitated the “disorderly expansion of capital,” which some are interpreting as a warning sign for Alibaba’s Jack Ma.

China’s technical schools cannot fulfill the government’s target of training a skilled workforce without much-needed reform.

Relations between Beijing and China’s tech giants have been complex and in flux for many years. But recently the government has taken a much clearer approach.

Beijing is taking a legal sledgehammer to the AI industry – at the expense of its own tech companies.

Though often overshadowed by China’s advances in technology, the state-directed strategy to set technological standards will have a lasting impact.

Most of Yahoo’s services were already blocked in China, but stricter government control over the tech sector may have hastened the company’s exit.

Companies and firms that used to straddle both the West and China with ease – like LinkedIn and Mayer Brown – are now finding themselves in uncharted territory.