# Tencent **Tencent** is one of China's two dominant technology conglomerates, best known outside China for WeChat — the messaging, payments and services platform that functions as near-universal infrastructure for Chinese digital life — and for holding among the world's largest portfolios of video-game assets, including stakes in numerous Western studios. Its relevance to this vault is the ownership question rather than the products: Tencent's stakes in American and European entertainment companies are a recurring subject in debates over content influence and over what [[CFIUS]] should screen. ## See Also - [[Chinese Influence]] - [[China]] - [[CFIUS]]