India, April 15 -- Meituan, ByteDance, JD.com, and nine other Chinese tech giants have all promised Beijing they will behave.

The alphabet of China's tech crackdown, we now know, goes past Alibaba. It now goes on to Baidu, ByteDance, and on down to Weibo.

China's government had just finished fining Jack Ma's e-commerce giant a record $2.8 billion for abusing its market dominance, after a four-month probe.

But then on Tuesday market watchdog, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), issued a stern edict too to 34 other Internet companies.

This group, which also includes the video service Kuaishou and the e-commerce platforms Pinduoduo, were all instructed to "heed Alibaba's example."

They were told to improve what the wa...