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Yes, absolutely. The economic clout gives them the confidence and means. That needs to be dealt with. Declaw!

Past 20-30 years as you said. Past performance is not a guarantee of future success. They don't have the same officials now as they did for the past few decades. Check out who the current ruler is and its background. This guy is a hardcore dictator who doesn't want to listen to any idea beside his own. And he's only got an elementary education. That's a recipe for failure.

There is a saying like this: if you want to see Tang dynasty, you go to Japan. Sung Dynasty you go to South Korea.

They will fail, but not without lots of damage to the world and themselves. All thanks to Xi Jinping's expansionist ambition.

Not just propping up autocratic regimes, but they also infiltrate democratic countries by providing funding/support to naive and/or corrupted politicians in the West.

Fluff to boost their stock price much the same way like "dot com".

What a world we live in! Each country gets its own version of alternative reality.

If they choose to be "obvious", they mean to show rather than hide it. It is a more aggressive tactic to bring others into the fold. There is no accident when it comes to these things for the communists. It serves as a warning shot.

Board of Director. The title of course is not called "Commissar", but they serve as a defacto one.

Some are public. Some hide their identities (but serve similar purpose). Secret ones usually are used in dealing with foreign entities (i.e. non-mainland). So you may not even know there is one except if you are in the top management.

It depends on whether the party considers your business useful to their rule or helpful in implementing their policies. For example, Wechat, Alipay, etc are all very useful.

Their policy is trickling down gradually.

They recently inserted Commissars into a list of Hong Kong real estate companies. So even non-mainland chinese companies are not immune.

It has been extensively used to describe the current situation - expansion of government's role in business and diminishing of private enterprises.

China would not hesitate to use your Chinese branch as a leverage to influence your business even in the US, e.g. Airlines, NBA, etc. Unless you are decoupled from China, you are not immune.

Not quite as aggressive as now. It is called "国进民退".

All businesses in China beside your neighborhood street vendors, noodle joints, corner stores, etc, are required to have a Communist Party Commissar stationed at their top management to control the company when needed.

Major companies (e.g. Huawei, BABA, BIDU) are already "Party owned" (via some complex ownership structure to hide the party behind), or in the process of being transferred to Party owned. Note: Party owned, not state owned. In China, the Party owns the State, and the army. (Can you imagine Republican (or Democrats) owned the US Army?!)

You may start out as a "no-one-cares" startup business, but once you get to certain size or they recognize you as a potential unicorn, they will coerce you to give up part or all of your ownership or insert their Commissar, because the Party cannot stand anyone beside itself to have any influence.

It is the policy of China under Xi Jinping since he gained power, and we are now seeing the effect of it.

Hmmm....Government propaganda is one thing. But sending you to concentration camp or prison because you have different views from the government is another.

Not sure what kind of equivalency you are trying to make here.

Chinese people join the CCP not because they identify with the communist ideals. They join because it gives access to a lot of resources and power that is otherwise unavailable to outsiders. It is essentially a gangster of national proportion, and behaves exactly like one, and they own the army.

Try becoming an activist, or attend a pro-HK freedom rally in the US.

From some estimate they have about 80 million members. Because becoming a party member is a prerequisite to any degree of success in China, both in business or government. Being a member one has to abide by very strict internal party rules (not the kind of code of conduct/ethics you are thinking). It is a completely top-down organization. You don't get to decide your party leader, sorry!

They are querying a Chinese database (Tencent, likely highly connected to the Chinese communist government).

What do you think the list would contain/not contain?

Nationalism in China is fueled by the Chinese media (i.e. the Chinese government) which control the message. The chinese government control the degree of nationalism in China like they turn the volume knob of a TV. They use it as weapon.

As a founder of a tech company based in China, you benefit from China blocking US (and the western world's) companies; You should be saddened by this. Can you please write a letter to Chairman Xi telling him he is wrong?

Say the ones driving pickup trucks.

Free market only works when everyone follows the same rules. When you have a player like China who is dead set on taking advantages of the rules but never taking the responsibility, you create an one-sided situation.

Trade is not just an economic issue. It's a political issue when you have China in the game.

Worse thing is: China always blames others for having 'cold war' mentality when in reality they are the one with hardcore cold war tactics all along.

>China is now a nightmare dictatorship

They call it "China Dream".

There is a big difference between demanding your supply chain to meet your shipping and quality standards and demanding your supply chain to toe your political and ideological line.

"speculate"

You don't need Hollywood for that. It's exactly what is happening in Hong Kong.

>If you believe there are “higher-quality” China YouTubers with a different view, don’t just allude to them, please share links.

I hope they don't say "Nathan Rich". ;-)

They are NOT exactly known for doing a "good job" in anything related to handling people. Just look at how they handle Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjian, etc.

Yes they are good at amassing people to build infrastructural projects. But that is very different than having to convince people. The regime is hard-coded to do things with brute force.