The e-commerce giant Alibaba is like the Chinese Amazon.[1008] Tencent is the world’s biggest gaming company[1009] and the creator of the juggernaut social media app WeChat,[1010] so it’s a parallel to Facebook. Baidu dominates Chinese search[1011] like Google dominates the rest of the world. Keeping homegrown tech companies insulated from foreign competition has clearly worked for China, so they’ll probably want to keep it that way.
