China imposes the world’s strictest limits on video games
Foreign firms will be hit as well as Chinese ones
IT IS HARD work being a capitalist in a communist dictatorship. In the past few months China’s authorities have gone after big technology firms for alleged abuse of monopolistic power and the misuse of data. In the name of social cohesion they have banned for-profit tutoring and hectored companies and billionaires about their wider social responsibilities. The crackdown is reckoned to have wiped more than $1trn off the value of China’s biggest tech firms.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Game over”
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