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Russia’s Ukraine invasion raises questions over Internet access; and China’s new policy focus

MLex Market Insight

MLex Market Insight

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4.99 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Following the invasion of Ukraine, an American pair of major providers of global Internet backbone services announced they had discontinued services to Russia, in a move that sparked immediate conjecture that Moscow could splinter off from the Internet. But it’s more complicated than that; what’s more, there are those who believe that the cause of those opposing the invasion would be better served by ensuring that the Russian people were able to stay online. Also on this week’s podcast: China’s so-called Two Sessions meetings shift the policy emphasis from competition to economic stability, job creation and fiscal support for enterprises. But where does that leave last year’s emphasis on antitrust?

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0:00.0

And that was the

0:10.8

Getting,

0:11.4

Gaiq, get rid of

0:13.6

Farn Kew,

0:16.1

and to grow,

0:17.6

and strong,

0:18.4

the voice of Chinese Premier Lee Kerang,

0:23.5

speaking ahead of the so-called Two Sessions Policy Summit.

0:27.8

He was talking about cutting red tape and uphold injustice.

0:31.6

But what about the key policy area of competition that dominated the meetings last year?

0:36.9

We'll be crossing to Hong Kong in the second

0:39.4

part of today's podcast to read the tea leaves with our Greater China correspondent. I'm James Panicki,

0:45.5

Asia Pacific Senior Editor here at Emlex, and it's great to be in your feed yet again. This is our

0:51.7

weekly podcast covering the top regulatory stories of the week with the

0:55.3

help of our team of reporters around the world. First up today, we returned to Russia's invasion

1:01.1

of Ukraine and an American pair of major providers of global internet backbone services

1:07.3

announced earlier this month that they had discontinued services to Russia.

1:12.6

And more recently, the London Internet Exchange, which is a UK-based Internet Traffic Exchange

1:18.5

Point, also announced that it would no longer service two major Russian internet providers.

1:24.6

This has led to conjecture that Russia could splinter off from the internet.

1:30.2

But assuming that has actually happened or is likely to happen, is it in the interest of those

1:35.6

opposing the invasion? Our DC-based technology reporter, Dave Pereira, has written a piece of

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