The People’s Bank this week issued draft guidelines that would force China’s mobile payments giants to cede ground to their rivals or face being broken up. The argument that this is needed to foster market competition is weak. Instead, the goal appears to be to ensure that individual private firms don’t dominate a key part of the economy, even if the cost is lower economic productivity overall.
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