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Chinese Ride-Sharing Giant Didi Chuxing Picks Its First English-Speaking Nation: To Enter Australia on June 25 (cnet.com)
From a report: Ever since outperforming Uber in its home base of China, speculation has mounted that ride-hailer Didi Chuxing would eventually branch out to the rest of the world. Didi's first launch in an English-speaking country comes on June 25, it was announced Thursday, when it'll start operations in Melbourne, Australia. The company has already begun recruiting local drivers. While you might not have heard of it, Didi is China's most popular ride-hailing service, and in 2016 absorbed Uber China in a deal worth around $35 billion.
They speak English in Australia??
They're a taxi service skirting labor laws. Nothing about them has anything to do with sharing. It bothers me to see the way mega corps can so easily shape are narratives. Are we that dense?
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Didi like a lot of Chinese companies seem to benefit from a lot of protectionism in China to grow and evolve. Surely this is giving them an unfair advantage when they decide to jump into other markets?
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As an Aussie, oh,... who could've guessed?
I mean our housing market is close to as bad as Vancouver thanks to them. They have picked up an IMMENSE amount of farmland in the past decade. There's been an utter plethora of money scandles with business and government.
What could go wrong? You know besides the locals being unable to afford a home anymore? But fuck them, they're poor.
This country is turning to the shit, fast, very very fast.
Didi Chuxing are going to have a hard time expanding beyond tourists....
WARNING for tourists hey if your washing your money in a Melbourne Casino why not let the Chinese state track how much time you spent at the tables...
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And so China's takeover of the Pacific continues.
Now that the USA has signalled it doesn't believe in alliances any more, Australia is feeling kinda exposed. China has been cultivating trade, cultural and political links with both Australia and New Zealand for at least 20 years now - it's already a far bigger trading partner to both of them than the USA (and thanks to that idiot Trump, likely to become even more so).
It's sad to reflect that the USA entered World War Two (specifically, by provoking Japan to launch an attack) specifically in order to prevent an Asian imperial power from gaining hegemony in the Pacific. Now Trump is doing his best to reverse that victory.
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So Uber already screw employees out of a decent wage, but what major difference will the Chinese bring to Australia?
The small hands of Asian workers are beneficial for product assembly, how what different skill will mean I choose them when I want a lift somewhere?
They did this with a lot of companies that enter China where they force them to join a Chinese company eventually kicking them out of China. The Australians should do this to Didi, let them taste their own medicine. Fuck CCP
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...in not getting randomly raided by Chinese authorities on a regular basis.
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Indeed. With the Chinese state already building their Social Credit System, expanding Chinese services like Didi Chuxing abroad is a great way to keep their citizens within the Chinese Internet ecosystem while they're overseas where they can be tracked, monitored and scored. Uber has already demonstrated the kind of abuses and tracking that can be done, now take those possibilities and apply them to a state coordinated environment where they deliberately take that information to score you! Oh, you're going to that casino to burn money? Isn't that address an exiled dissident's bookshop? Interesting that you and a few friends are congregating with a known Taiwanese activist we're tracking...
China no doubt either hampered Uber, helped Didi, or more likely both, and very possibly is just faking the performance statistics of both so they get their own state-owned-and-controlled company a foot in the door. Also no doubt there will be cameras and microphones in all the cars recording everything that's going on, maybe even hacking people's phones. You're nuts to use their service, ever. Of course I'm no fan of Uber either, they're just a bunch of criminals.