China’s two largest tech companies promised to open up their digital empires on Monday, a move that may reshape online life for hundreds of millions of users.
For the past eight years, Tencent and Alibaba have carved China’s internet into two rival camps, replicating each other’s services and blocking all interoperability between their platforms.
Tencent’s payment systems cannot be used on Alibaba’s sites and vice versa. Links to Alibaba’s online shopping sites cannot be posted on Tencent’s messaging app WeChat. Short videos from ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and its Chinese sister app Douyin, also cannot be posted on WeChat.
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