The Ctrip Case Reveals the Limits of Administrative Interviews in China’s Antitrust Enforcement

The recent case of Chinese online travel platform Ctrip ignoring the warnings of provincial competition authorities until the central government stepped in reveals the limits of China’s decentralized regulatory system. Chun-Kit (Kitson) Ng suggests several ways that China can reform its system to empower the provincial authorities and fulfill the regulatory system’s design to avoid drawing on the…