Special report | Competition policy
The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action
Greater concentration of market power is leading to a trustbusting revival
OBSERVERS OF CHINA’S rise have grown used to seeing old edifices bulldozed to make way for the new. As with bricks and mortar, so with intellectual constructs. In just 12 months President Xi Jinping has replaced a “cautious and tolerant” approach to the private sector with something much less so. Nowhere has the shift towards tougher rules and enforcement been more striking than in competition policy.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Antitrust redux”
From the January 15th 2022 edition
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