A recognized expert on China has written in a column at the Gatestone Institute explaining that Alibaba, the Chinese version of megacompany Amazon, should be unceremoniously booted from the New York Stock Exchange.
“In these circumstances, it is strategically wrong to support any element of a system that is assaulting the free world in general and the United States in particular,” explained China expert Gordon Chang. “It is also morally wrong to do so. It is time to delist Alibaba and all other Chinese companies from American stock exchanges and to prohibit Americans from doing business with any of them. All of them are America’s enemies.”
Alibaba, in fact, had a market value of some $231 billion when its IPO in 2014 raised $25 billion.
It is in the top few dozen companies worldwide. It is into technology, e-commerce, retail, Internet and more.
It provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business operations.
It owns and operates a long list of other corporations.
It is into capital investments and artificial intelligence.
However, Chang wrote in the Gatestone Institute column that, “Alibaba provides tech support for Chinese military ‘operations’ against targets in the U.S.”
He said, at least, that’s what a White House memo charged, according to the Financial Times.
“The Chinese giant reportedly provided ‘access to customer data that includes IP addresses, WiFi information and payment records, as well as different AI-related services,’” he explained, “Whether the FT report is accurate or not—it sounds accurate—it is time to delist Alibaba from the New York Stock Exchange and remove all other Chinese companies from U.S. stock listings. All of them are integral parts of a hostile regime assaulting America.”
While China’s embassy in Washington denied the memo’s information, Chang explained its denials “cannot possibly be true.”
“There are no real privacy protections in China’s total surveillance society ” Chang explained. “The Communist Party of China runs a unitary state and demands absolute obedience from all individuals, businesses, and institutions in the country. Businesses operate as separate entities and report to separate controlling government bodies, but they are not separate. Washington must stop assuming that Chinese society is organized the same way as America’s.”
He charged that any and all Chinese entities, government or commercial, should “be treated as one single organization, the way the Party views them.”
After all, the Chinese Communist Party “has access to everything any Chinese company, state-owned or privately owned, or Chiense institution possesses.”
And that party “has declared the United States to be its enemy,” he said.
He noted the opinion from Richard Fisher, of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, who said, “The Chinese Communist Party has exceeded the extreme lengths taken by the Soviet Communist Party to integrate and subordinate its ‘civilian economy’ to serve the larger goals of its ‘military economy.’ All Chinese companies, factories, universities, and local governments either directly or indirectly support the military.”
“Did Alibaba in fact support the Chinese military as the White House memo charges? Only those with access to classified information know,” Chang wrote. “Yet the truth of the White House’s charge does not matter. What matters is that Alibaba is part of the Communist Party’s system.”
The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military, according to a letter to Congress https://t.co/brOfINwTxt
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