Weekly Briefing: SF Express vs Cainiao – Another proxy battle between Tencent and Alibaba

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SF Express, one of China’s largest and most valuable courier companies, is claiming that Cainiao, an Alibaba logistics affiliate, has removed them as a shipping option. From South China Morning Post:

Bloomberg has more detail on Cainiao’s response:

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