Abstract
On 7 February 2021, the Antimonopoly Committee of China’s State Council, China’s chief executive body, issued the Platform Economy Antimonopoly Guidelines.1 Though technically high-level policy and not binding law, this document has already seen a number of its norms aggressively implemented through enforcement actions and likely also forewarns of a coming shift in judicial attitudes relating to the same issues. This article will give an overview of the Guidelines’ enactment backdrop, some of their key content, and their regulatory impact so far, and will then offer an overarching comparison with the European Commission’s draft Digital Markets Act (DMA). China had long adopted a hands-off approach to regulatory interventions in the digital platform sphere. National-level policy, formulated in documents such as the State Council’s Internet Plus strategy of 2015, affirmatively sought to encourage the development of local internet...
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