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Didi Kuaidi is only competitive in china because of homefield advantage. They have used bribes and other tactics to hinder uber. Uber has had to fight with the
by marme 11y ago
Didi Kuaidi is only competitive in china because of homefield advantage. They have used bribes and other tactics to hinder uber. Uber has had to fight with the government to even allow them to operate while didi kuaidi was granted a license to operate from day one because they are invested with big names who have government connections. Outside of china didi kuaidi can not compete with uber. It is the same reason why amazon does so bad in china. China is a strange market where corruption and physical social networks play a large role in business the foreign companies just cant compete with
- littletimmy 11y agoIt is wrong to assume corruption. It might just be that China prefers seeing local companies run the Chinese market, and engages in a form of protectionism. That is perfectly justified and not corrupt.
- jessaustin 11y agoEven if we stipulate to all of these claims, so what? Do you expect China to change any of that soon? Maybe a better question is whether other populous nations like India, Nigeria, Brazil, etc. will decide to follow China's example.
- Grishnakh 11y agoIt doesn't matter if China changes it or not. The point is that some Chinese company has a huge advantage in China. That doesn't extend to Brazil or India; it isn't going to do any better there than Uber, and probably much worse. Now, some other Brazilian or Indian company might have a huge advantage (again, thanks to corruption) in their respective country, but the Chinese company isn't likely to do well at all there because their usual tactics won't work since they don't have any insider connections in those countries the way they do in China.