The PRC as a government makes the calls that it does because it is one of the vehicles of power by which the CCP operates. Remember that constitutionally the CC

The PRC as a government makes the calls that it does because it is one of the vehicles of power by which the CCP operates. Remember that constitutionally the CCP is above the government, the law and the PLA and therefore the highest offices of power within mainland China are not any of the Executive offices of government but the political offices (General Secretary of the CCP, the Politburo and the members of the standing committee). The People’s Liberation Army, People’s Armed Police and Militia answer to the Central Military Commission which is subordinate directly to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It isn’t like the United States or Europe or even Japan or Korea. Your basic assumptions vis a vis how we work and therefore how they must work will never work when trying to serve as a proper lens for interpreting the PRC because the PRC is itself an institution subordinate to a Party which considers all aspects of Chinese society both public and private subordinate to the Party including State, Religion and the activities families and businesses of their subjects which in their eyes doesn’t stop at the border if you are of Chinese descent. So if a business like Alibaba or a businessman like Jack Ma is challenging anything about that framework, or the laws of the PRC and policies of the CCP, they can’t afford to let that stand because the most important thing to them is maintaining their internal cohesion and power. Everything else is secondary or tertiary.