{"id":33667,"date":"2021-07-03T02:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/chinas-internet-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-didi-ride-hailing-service"},"modified":"2021-07-03T02:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:36:49","slug":"chinas-internet-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-didi-ride-hailing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33667","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s internet regulator opens inquiry into Didi ride-hailing service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech firm, which just launched its IPO in New York, is latest online giant to be targeted by Chinese authorities<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s internet regulator has launched an investigation into one of the country\u2019s biggest ride-hailing services, Didi, two days after the company\u2019s massive initial public offering (IPO) in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers believe the move against Didi is part of a continuing crackdown by the Chinese authorities on what was once a loosely regulated technology sector. It follows government actions in recent months aimed at the online marketplace Alibaba, and social networks Tencent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/18\/bytedance-revenues-more-than-double-on-back-of-tiktok-boom\">Bytedance<\/a>, the parent company of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/chinas-internet-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-didi-ride-hailing-service\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech firm, which just launched its IPO in New York, is latest online giant to be targeted by Chinese authoritiesChina\u2019s internet regulator has launched an investigation into one of the country\u2019s biggest ride-hailing services, Didi, two days after the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,987,351,2217,600,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-cybercrime","category-internet","category-regulators","category-stock-markets","category-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions\/33668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}