Over the past few years, the Chinese government has significantly increased its control over the previously relatively free-living technology sector. Political and economic experts at the time attributed the increase in pressure to the Communist Party’s concern that the industry, which earned billions of dollars each year, had become too powerful and the leaders of technology companies too independent of the party.
However, in recent months, as the global economy has been going through more difficult times, the government of the world’s most densely populated country has seemed to be under pressure and loosened so that the lucrative industry can compete.
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