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Comment by hulitu | Hacker News Reader

At least some countries fight monopolies, not promote them. /s

The CCP is not fighting monopolies, it is fighting companies that it doesn't like. Taobao/Tmall will still be a monopoly on online retail and will be a full part of Alibaba without taking external investment.

Why the /s though? It's obvious some countries actually promote monopolies, especially when they go global.

Like Huawei. China wants them to have a monopoly everywhere on earth.

Alibaba had nothing to do with being a monopoly, it became a power base to rival the government so it had to be broken and scattered.

Huawei, Gazprom, Google, Facebook, probably each G7 country has a champion it wants to rule the field.

Does any western government activity promote monopolies abroad and threaten consequences if such monopolies are fought against, all while accepting state-backed monopoly at home?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-threatens-retaliation-aga...

To recap, the Alibaba break up wasn't about a monopoly, it was about a rival power base to the CCP that couldn't be allowed to exist.

Well, how about Boeing vs Airbus?

How is it even possible to establish a monopoly market with airplanes considering you can operate both at the same time?

https://www.quora.com/Can-an-airline-have-both-Boeing-and-Ai...

The same way Huawei sells 5G equipment as Ericsson, Nokia, et al.

Once you build a 5G system with Huawei, it's very hard and sometimes impossible to include other equipment. Huawei for this reason builds a "full-stack" 5G product that doesn't allow for anyone else's hardware but theirs.

And again, Ericsson and Nokia don't have nation states threatening countries if they don't use them in all their networks.

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