{"id":296339,"date":"2026-02-13T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296339\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:16:20","slug":"china-releases-anti-monopoly-guidelines-for-internet-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296339\/","title":{"rendered":"China releases anti-monopoly guidelines for internet platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">HONG KONG, Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s market watchdog on Friday released anti-monopoly \u200cguidelines for internet platforms to \u200chelp prevent collusion and unfairly high prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">KEY DETAILS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">* \u200bThe guidelines target the use of sophisticated tech to fixprices, warning platforms against using algorithms to coordinatepricing or traffic distribution with \u200ccompetitors. * Authorities \u2060also labelled &#8220;all-network lowest price&#8221;requirements as a risk, prohibiting dominant platforms fromforcing \u2060merchants to lower prices on their platform wheneverthey drop prices elsewhere. They \u200balso noted \u200bthat even smallerplatforms \u200bcould face monopoly \u200ccharges if they demand equal orbetter price offers or other conditions than their competitors. * The guidelines prohibit forced exclusive partnerships.Major platform operators are banned from demanding \u200cthatmerchants pledge not to \u200bcooperate with competing \u200bplatformswithout justifiable grounds. * \u200bPlatforms are advised against \u200cusing transaction history,device types, or \u200bspending habits \u200bto charge different prices todifferent users for the same service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u200bthe Beijing \u200cnewsroom; writing by Farah Master and \u200bEthan Wang; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman \u200band Tomasz Janowski)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG, Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s market watchdog on Friday released anti-monopoly \u200cguidelines for internet platforms to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,19315,61,141017,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-296339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-guidelines","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-internet-platforms","13":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}