China regulators should act further to free up apps’ access to rivals’ links-state paper

BEIJING: Chinese internet platforms have not gone far enough in unblocking external links, as instructed by authorities, and relevant government bodies should take further action to intervene, a state-run newspaper said on Tuesday.

According to the Economic Information Daily, a newspaper owned by the Xinhua News Agency, this showed companies could not be relied on to carry out “self rectification”, and government bodies should take further actions including taking apps that do not follow the rules offline.