Angela Huyue Zhang on Why Beijing Took On the Tech Giants

Angela Huyue Zhang is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, and a leading expert on Chinese tech regulation. She is the author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, a highly acclaimed book that absorbs all that happened during China’s 2020–2022 tech crackdown to explain how the government there regulates its tech sector. In this lightly edited Q&A, we spoke about when and why Beijing’s attitude towards China’s big tech darlings ch

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