{"id":1005637,"date":"2026-04-29T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005637"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:13:38","slug":"blocking-of-metas-ai-startup-buy-raises-risk-for-cross-border-china-tech-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/blocking-of-metas-ai-startup-buy-raises-risk-for-cross-border-china-tech-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocking of Meta&#8217;s AI startup buy raises risk for cross-border China tech deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s blocking of Meta&#8217;s acquisition of AI startup Manus will heighten the risk for global investors looking to invest in advanced tech firms with ties to the country amid Beijing&#8217;s expansion of jurisdictional reach to safeguard strategic assets. <\/p>\n<p>The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in a \u200brare case, ordered on Monday that the $2-billion-plus acquisition by Meta be unwound under Beijing&#8217;s national security review mechanism of foreign investments that came into effect in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s blocking of Meta&#8217;s acquisition of AI startup Manus will heighten the risk for global investors looking to invest in advanced tech firms with ties to the country amid Beijing&#8217;s expansion of jurisdictional reach to safeguard strategic assets. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in a \u200brare case, ordered on Monday that the $2-billion-plus acquisition by Meta be unwound under Beijing&#8217;s national security review mechanism of foreign investments that came into effect in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}