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...“As the committee has learned, when you scrutinise and follow the billions of US investor dollars flowing to CCP-controlled Chinese enterprises, courtesy of reckless Wall Street firms, it leads to nowhere...
...James Char, a China expert at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, attributed resurgence of interest in PAFDs to the “CCP party-state stressing ‘security’ over ‘development’”, which...
...Xi has used the campaign both to root out genuine corruption, which many experts see as endemic in the party-state, as well as to target political rivals and their followers among the CCP’s almost 100mn...
...But he acknowledged there had been “headwinds”, adding: “Some enterprises had a tough time, some people had difficulty finding jobs and meeting basic needs.”...
...If the CCP wages lawfare on Western companies, as now appears likely, the economic fallout will be massive....
...Investigations would prioritise China’s finance, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors as well as state-owned enterprises, it added....
...The agency’s wider remit comes as the CCP adopts a broader view of security that encompasses data, technology, the environment and other issues....
...They are connected to the state one way or another: they are more likely working for the government or a state-owned enterprise, which is expanding at the expense of the private sector....
...An HSBC Asia heavily exposed to Hong Kong and China would be easier for the CCP to bend to its will....
...It has immense control over its private enterprises, while its massive state-owned enterprises and universities, also under state control, conduct large amounts of defence-focused research and development...
...Given that Xi pledged to strengthen “party building” in non-public enterprises ahead of the two meetings, it was not clear how much of a hearing the proposal would receive....
...As much as 80 per cent of OTC trades, depending on type, now use CCPs....
...He is expected to mirror the reshuffle of the CCP’s leadership in the government’s top ranks, which will boast a team of new faces drawn heavily from Xi’s past....
...Before the state-owned enterprise reforms of the 1990s, children whose parents belonged to “work units” were guaranteed childcare from the age of two onwards....
...In the long-term, the only ones left might be the partners in the audit firms who cozied up to the CCP, and the real estate oligarchs and their rent-extracting enterprises. Abigail Perez Edinburgh, UK...
...Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the widespread unrest could “become a serious test of the tools of social control developed under Xi”....
...It rules over a $16tn economy, of which a quarter is generated by state-owned enterprises, and holds sway over 1.4bn people. Its scientific and technological prowess has left the Pentagon gobsmacked....
...After months of fierce internal politics, Xi secured an unprecedented third term as leader of the CCP and was able to pick a ruling politburo composed exclusively of loyalists....
...Under the government of President Tsai Ing-wen’s China-friendly predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, Cosco and two other Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were allowed to purchase 10 per cent stakes in another...
...Private enterprise was such a new concept that his earliest employees had to carry a copy of Ping An’s insurance licence as proof they were not acting illegally....
...Most were government and party officials, soldiers, employees of state-owned enterprises and students....
...The CCP has made it illegal for tutoring companies to earn profits, raise capital or list abroad....
...On one of the last occasions we met, he was engrossed by the irony of the Communist party presiding over an economy that owes its prosperity largely to private enterprise....
...At stake is the CCP’s social contract with China’s people, Yu said....
...In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng China Enterprises index dropped 2.3 per cent as the broader Hang Seng stumbled almost 2 per cent....
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