Chinese authorities are considering forcing major local internet companies, including Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance, to showcase their content in search results, which could remove barriers between different platforms. The Chinese Internet is different in that users are mostly limited to the ecosystem of one specific company and a new initiative is designed to change that. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is discussing rules to make hundreds of millions of articles from the Tencent WeChat app available through leading search engines such as Baidu. Also, due to the changes, videos from Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, will be…