SAMR urges platforms to shift from anticompetitive tactics to 'collaborative' competition
By MLex Staff ( November 17, 2025, 07:07 GMT | Insight) -- China’s market regulator has urged internet platforms to move beyond a “land-grabbing” approach to competition and abandon the belief that excluding or restricting competition benefits the last ones standing. Instead, platform operators are encouraged to adopt a “community” mindset — embracing collaborative openness to promote upgraded competition, mutual benefit and business transformation, according to an interpretation released by the State Administration for Market Regulation’s Antimonopoly Enforcement Bureau One.China’s market regulator has urged internet platforms to move beyond a “land-grabbing” approach to competition and abandon the belief that excluding or restricting competition benefits the last ones standing....
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