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China's SAMR tightens platform oversight as antitrust enforcement is 'normalized'

By MLex Staff ( July 29, 2025, 09:12 GMT | Insight) -- China is strengthening antitrust oversight of the platform economy through consistent and institutionalized enforcement — an approach often described by regulators as "normalized supervision." In its enforcement summary for the first half of 2025, published last night, the State Administration for Market Regulation, or SAMR, highlighted its enhanced oversight of the platform economy, including stepping up case handling, deepening supervision, holding regulatory talks with relevant platforms and addressing suspected monopolistic conduct.China is stepping up antitrust oversight of the platform economy through consistent and institutionalized enforcement — an approach often described by regulators as "normalized supervision" — while reaffirming efforts to strengthen competition governance in key sectors by enhancing law-based, credit record-based and smart tech-enabled regulatory capabilities....

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