New kid in the playground: China's antitrust push

This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound
of Economics.



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China’s growing economic power is causing great anxiety in the
West: European regulators are tightening the rules on takeovers
by Chinese state-owned giants, while the United States is
imposing aggressive sanctions on leading Chinese technology firms
such as Huawei, ByteDance (TikTok) and Tencent (WeChat).



In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Bruegel’s Alicia
García-Herrero, Mario Mariniello and Giuseppe Porcaro make the
virtual trip to the enclave of Hong Kong, where they are joined
by Angela Huyue Zhang, an expert on Chinese law and the author of
“Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China
Challenges Global Regulation”. She draws on her experience of
examining how Chinese exceptionalism, as manifested in the way
China regulates and is regulated, is reshaping global antitrust
regulation to impose extraterritoriality and counter western
sanctions and influence.