A company of Tencent’s stature can afford to hoover up the competition from various markets and territories of its multifaceted operations, yet the Chinese internet behemoth faces inherent struggles to expand its business internationally due to backlash at being fundamentally controlled by the Chinese state. Evidence of this came recently with its attempt at jumping into bed with popular mobile game Pokémon Go, leading to widespread ridicule of Tencent’s censorship practices and boycotts across social media. This turned out to be the calm before the storm, days later having its marching orders handed to it by the Indian government along with 56 apps owned and operated by Tencent, most notably the teen social media phenomenon TikTok. Having acquired Malaysian video…