If you're interested, check out Tarun Khanna's book, "Billions of Entrepreneurs". Prof. Khanna lays out China's socio-politico-economical landscape of China in

If you're interested, check out Tarun Khanna's book, "Billions of Entrepreneurs". Prof. Khanna lays out China's socio-politico-economical landscape of China in terms of Entrepreneurship and makes a dapper point wherein he claims, Alibaba isn't the business- the CCP is the business and Jack Ma is its the customer. His chops remain strong only as long as he is in the good books of the CCP. Looking at it from that perspective, the Party member confirmation looked like a pretty predictable outcome.