When it comes to China it often pays to listen out for changes in the political mood music and right now, as the ruling party gets ready for its five-yearly national congress this autumn, there are subtle hints that something new is in the air criticism of China's private technology companies.
Although Communist China never fully embraced political glasnost, the country has undoubtedly been open for business for several decades and seen private enterprise flourish as a result, lifting hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty.
But the trappings of the state-planned economy the five-year plans, grand geopolitical projects, hidden power struggles, opaque networks linking...
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