After Alibaba’s Record Penalty Regulatory Doubts Haunt China’s Media Tech Sector

Variety2021-04-16

News over the weekend of a record breaking $2.8 billion fine for Chinese tech giant Alibaba produced a huge relief rally. The company’s value surged by more than $30 billion in Monday stock trading. ...

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2021-04-17
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Great to iron things out

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That the result of the investigation could be delivered so quickly and the scale of the fine, which was only 4% of revenue rather than the maximum 10%, were reasons for Alibaba shares’ brief rebound.\n“To regulate is to ensure better development, and the act of tugging at the sleeve is also an act of love,” said the People’s Daily, the mainland government’s most important media mouthpiece. The government wants “healthy and continuous development of the country’s internet industry” and the fine did not deny the “important role of internet platforms in economic and social development,” the paper said.\nAlibaba said that it accepted its punishment and knew of no other government actions against it. That was another cause for relief. There has been speculation in recent months that Alibaba might be forced to break up or dispose of its huge media and entertainment holdings.\n“Despite the record fine amount, we think this should lift a major overhang on BABA and shift the market’s focus back to fundamentals,” investment bank Morgan Stanley said in a research note published on Sunday.\nBut the relief proved short-lived.\nThere is no guarantee that Alibaba’s attempts at compliance over a three-year probation period will necessarily be acceptable to the regulators.\nAnd, underlining the notion that the whole tech industry remains in the government crosshairs, it soon emerged that the bosses of 34 Chinese tech firms had been summoned for a quiet dressing down. They were told to heed Alibaba’s punishment as a warning to them all.\nThose in attendance are reported to have included reps from Baidu, Sina Weibo, iQIYI, Bytedance (the unlisted owner of Douyin and TikTok), Bilibili, Kuaishou, and Suning, the electronics retailer that owns streaming service PPTV.\nThroughout the recent financial earnings reporting season, the issue of regulation cast a shadow over the sector. Despite China’s V-shaped economic recovery, and strong results from digital sector leaders, caution seemed to be as prevalent as references to COVID-19.\nTencent, which many industry watchers regarded as the next most vulnerable to government action, played down record profits. It even described working with regulators as the “strategic focus” of its fintech business. 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