A man walks past an Uber station outside a shopping mall in Beijing on August 1, 2016. Ride-sharing giant Uber is to merge its China operations with local rival Didi Chuxing, reports said on August 1, ending a ferocious battle for market share in the world's second-largest economy. / AFP PHOTO / STR
HONG KONG: With China gone, Uber can now take its fight for the rest of Asia up a gear.
After trading its loss-making Chinese unit for a minority stake in local rival Didi Chuxing, the US-based ride-hailing company can ratchet up the competition in India and South-East Asia, where it is not as far behind. But Uber must balance the conflicts this could create with Didi with the need to show global growth.
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