{"id":147986,"date":"2025-02-04T06:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/china-hits-back-at-trump-tariffs-with-google-antitrust-investigation-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T06:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:42:05","slug":"china-hits-back-at-trump-tariffs-with-google-antitrust-investigation-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/china-hits-back-at-trump-tariffs-with-google-antitrust-investigation-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"China hits back at Trump tariffs with Google antitrust investigation | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China said Tuesday it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samr.gov.cn\/xw\/zj\/art\/2025\/art_396a9ab3aa6d4c4bbd40833815afd245.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launched an antitrust investigation into Google<\/a>, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The probe by China\u2019s State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by the U.S. tech giant, which has had its search and internet services blocked in China since 2010 but maintains operations there primarily focused on advertising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause Google is suspected of violating the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People\u2019s Republic of China, the State Administration for Market Regulation has launched an investigation into Google in accordance with the law,\u201d the English translated version of administration\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beijing also hit U.S. coal and liquefied natural gas exports with a 15% levy and imposed a 10% tariff on oil and agricultural equipment. Chinese authorities also added Calvin Klein owner PVH Corp. and gene sequencing company Illumina to a restricted entities list, while implementing new export controls on tungsten-related materials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s tariffs, which he justified as a response to Beijing\u2019s failure to prevent the flow of illegal drugs, reignited trade tensions between the world\u2019s largest economies just as relations appeared to be stabilizing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a developing story. More to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/03\/china-hits-back-at-trump-tariffs-with-google-antitrust-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China said Tuesday it has launched an antitrust investigation into Google, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. The probe by China\u2019s State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by the U.S. tech giant, which has had its search and internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}