Southeast Asia and India look to China for tech success models

Asian startups chip away at Silicon Valley's influence

Pinduoduo is a leader in so-called social commerce services, a growing market in India and Southeast Asia. © Reuters

KEN KOYANAGI, Nikkei Asian Review Editor-at-large

January 30, 2020 18:09 JST

JAKARTA -- China has nurtured its own tech titans dubbed BAT -- Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings -- while keeping most of the American giants -- Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.com, or GAFA -- off the Chinese internet behind the so-called Great Firewall.