Last week we examined the challenges facing the Chinese operators, as they cope with the dual pressures of meeting government expectations for accelerated 5G roll-out, and of financing 5G networks with no prospect of near-term revenue increases. Now the three main operators are responding to these pressures by seeking a far higher degree of infrastructure and investment sharing than the market has previously seen. The three majors – China Mobile, Telecom and Unicom – already share a large proportion of their passive infrastructure via the vast and government-backed China Tower joint venture. There have been many reports that this structure might be applied to some active infrastructure and transport fiber over time. And now there is a new entrant to…