To the world's investors, the saga over Didi Global has made China's biggest tech firms a riskier bet as President Xi Jinping seeks to control one of the country's most valuable resources: big data.

Didi is by most measures an appealing success story. The firm controls almost the entire ride-hailing market in China and counts SoftBank Group and Tencent as major shareholders...

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