The Ministry of Industry and Informatization of the PRC ordered technology companies, including Alibaba and Tencent, to stop blocking links to each other’s services from their platforms. The department held a meeting, which was attended by representatives of Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance (owns TikTok), Baidu, Huawei and Xiaomi. During the meeting, the department proposed new standards for managing instant messaging services to companies – according to the new standards, all platforms must be unlocked by a certain time. The representative of the ministry also clarified that if the companies refuse to obey, then it may be necessary to take other measures...