As the Chinese ridehailing app prepares for a giant IPO in New York, a look at why one of its biggest obstacles going forward could take place on its home turf.
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When Xi Jinping lined up the leaders of the world’s biggest tech companies for a class photo during his 2015 Seattle visit, the man standing in the top row, second from the left, had plenty of reason to smile. Not only had 32-year-old Cheng Wei been invited to a room full of A-listers — the chief executives of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Alibaba were all there — but his chief rival, the CEO of U
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If Xi Jinping is becoming more preoccupied with internal politics, it could lead to a period of relative calm in China’s relations with the United States.
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