How does China regulate its Big Tech companies? This question has profound implications for Chinese businesses and international investors. Since October 2020, Beijing has enacted a dizzying array of regulatory measures against Chinese tech firms in areas ranging from antitrust to data and labor regulation. This massive regulatory campaign started with the demise of Ant Group’s initial public offering (IPO) and has since expanded to a wide range of industries—from fintech and e-commerce to social media, food delivery, ride-hailing, and even tutoring.

In this session of the Guarini Colloquium, we will discuss how to analyze these regulatory developments from domestic and global perspectives, based on the theoretical framework developed by Angela Zhang in her forthcoming book: “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy” (OUP 2024, forthcoming).