FYI to be more clear - the Chinese Communist Party has party officials placed within corporate organisations in order to maintain control, and to require businesses to adhere to CCP Policy.
As of 2019 - 70% of Chinese business had 'CCP organs' placed within the company for oversight, and Xi wants to put it to at least 95% very soon. [1]
From the Guardian: "Central Organisation Department, the party’s personnel body, found that 68% of China’s private companies had party bodies by 2016, and 70% of foreign enterprises. Although these figures sound high, they don’t match the targets the party has set for itself. In Xi’s old stamping ground of Zhejiang, for example, officials set a target in August 2018 to have cells inside 95% of private businesses."
There is no ambiguity here: while the state may allow private enterprises to manage day-to-day affairs, all private businesses are subject to controls and scrutiny by the CCP - directly from agents within the company - so that they meet CCP objectives.
Given that, all Chinese companies are de-facto CCP companies from the perspective of national security and strategic policy.
The parallel would be Trump putting a 'special team' of CIA or Republicans inside every American company to ensure oversight of his agenda.
This is very material to the nature of Social Media operations and global influence.
Edit: which is why India et. al. are going to be much more concerned about TikTok than other apps and that the primary concern is not issues over speech.
As of 2019 - 70% of Chinese business had 'CCP organs' placed within the company for oversight, and Xi wants to put it to at least 95% very soon. [1]
From the Guardian: "Central Organisation Department, the party’s personnel body, found that 68% of China’s private companies had party bodies by 2016, and 70% of foreign enterprises. Although these figures sound high, they don’t match the targets the party has set for itself. In Xi’s old stamping ground of Zhejiang, for example, officials set a target in August 2018 to have cells inside 95% of private businesses."
There is no ambiguity here: while the state may allow private enterprises to manage day-to-day affairs, all private businesses are subject to controls and scrutiny by the CCP - directly from agents within the company - so that they meet CCP objectives.
Given that, all Chinese companies are de-facto CCP companies from the perspective of national security and strategic policy.
The parallel would be Trump putting a 'special team' of CIA or Republicans inside every American company to ensure oversight of his agenda.
This is very material to the nature of Social Media operations and global influence.
Edit: which is why India et. al. are going to be much more concerned about TikTok than other apps and that the primary concern is not issues over speech.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...