
Meanwhile, In China
A wave of headlines out of China were worth a mention on Thursday.
In what looked, in part anyway, like an effort to further Beijing's tech crackdown, the NPC approved legislation that strengthens the party's grip over data held by tech companies.
China has methodically turned the screws since late October, when Jack Ma made the mistake of suggesting that regulators (both at home and abroad) are stymying innovation. That transgression cost Ma dearly. Ant's IPO was iced by Beijing and Alibaba f