I wonder...
Will this apply to Apple?
Beijing has yet again slapped regulations on Big Tech in China. This time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has told app makers and web sites to stop blocking links to their rivals, or face the consequences. In a Q&A session at the start of the week on manufacturing and cyber development, MIIT …
All those companies are state controlled and are not private in the sense we understand it.
It's basically like saying that government departments should stop blocking linking to other government departments.
All those Chinese companies play in the same team and this is designed, so that the agents in the West will advocate for the same model, that of course will have different impact in a truly free market economy.