Indeed. No surprise at all. Entrepreneurs have been permitted and encouraged to join the Party for many years now, and it is an obvious way to get ahead and secure one’s status and privileges. See Minxin Pei’s excellent book China’s Crony Capitalism.
I explain why Jack Ma's communist party membership comes as no surprise to many Chinese and China watchers, why the party wants to affiliate itself with capitalist success stories and why many successful Chinese businesspeople are party members.https://nyti.ms/2DMYBbJ
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It sounds familiar, do we not have one here live & kicking exarcebated by the Tall Poppy Syndrome via such culture many ppl lack of competence got their jobs augmented by a devoid of accountability. Your expression here, a
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This list in the People's Daily is a "lightning rod," Qian Gang argues, noting absence also of Ren Zhengfei of Huawei:http://chinamediaproject.org/2018/11/27/why-is-huawei-out-in-the-cold/ …
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“...party wants to affiliate itself with capitalist success stories”. It’s the other way around. 
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I am surprised anyone is surprised. Good job in explaining it.
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I am not surprised you aren’t surprised.
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one way to look at it is that his ccp membership is actually a stabilizing factor for baba since the west may view his close relationship to ccp as being good for biz. in other words, wall street could care less. money is green even if it is red washed.
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Of course he's going to join the party. Either he joins, or he gets put on their shit list. He does not comply, and they can easily take away all his wealth.
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The really interesting question is when he joined.
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Not really. More like the old boys club than anything
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