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Breakingviews TV: Easy way out

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Investors including Warburg Pincus plan to take 58.com private for $8.7 bln, a deal announced just days after a group led by Tencent agreed to buy out Bitauto. Both acquisitions offer the U.S.-listed Chinese outfits an easy exit from an unwelcoming market, Alec Macfarlane argues.