{"id":1005764,"date":"2026-04-29T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005764"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:32:35","slug":"china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-manus-heightens-risk-for-cross-border-tech-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-manus-heightens-risk-for-cross-border-tech-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"China blocks Meta&#8217;s acquisition of Manus; heightens risk for cross-border 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 rare 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 rare 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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005764","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=1005764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005775,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005764\/revisions\/1005775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}