SEOUL: South Korea’s Samsung on Tuesday announced the launch of its mobile payment service in China, where it is likely to struggle in an already crowded market that arch-rival Apple entered nearly six weeks ago.

The world’s second largest economy is also the world’s biggest smartphone market, and Samsung Pay has a powerful partner in China—bankcard provider UnionPay—which has links to the central bank.

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