Challenges and Prospects for Merger Control in China in the Digital Economy

By Wei Han & Yajie Gao

Until now, the Chinese competition authority has only officially reviewed a few cases of concentration between internet companies, due to VIE, the incompetence of the turnover-based notification threshold, and the lack of experience in solving new competition concerns, such as potential foreclosure led by data and privacy as non-price competition element. The authors of this paper present challenges confronted by the Chinese competition authority and put forward sugge