Tech Insider: Tencent’s $7 Billion Game, Beijing’s New Robotaxis

Welcome to Caixin’s Tech Insider, your twice-weekly wrap on the movers, shakers and deal-makers in China’s tech scene.

WeChat’s crumbling walls

Tencent’s WeChat said on Monday that it will soon allow group-chat participants to share links to external shopping platforms such as Alibaba’s Tmall and Taobao, the latest chapter in Beijing’s campaign to tear down the barriers dividing China’s internet into fiefdoms belonging to a handful of tech giants.