Convergence in approaches taken by both East & West to tackle Digital Platforms Anti-Competitive Practices

Abstract

This Article focuses on how East and West are taking steps to combat the dominance of major online platforms. The piece considers several major judicial and regulatory decisions from China, USA, and Europe in an effort to assess the level of success or failure enjoyed by antitrust regulators in recent investigations where they seek to attempt to maintain competition in digital marketplaces, by subjecting global digital platforms’ terms of business and business practices to antitrust scrutiny. The outcomes are sometimes not as expected, and some antitrust decisions by regulatory bodies have been reversed by the courts from time to time.