"Each
of the big three is so big, so wired in politically and so vital to the
Chinese economy that its survival is assured. An employee at one of the
companies likened BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) to Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, the superstates
of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which are so big as to be undefeatable and permanently at war."
