On April 10, the General Administration of Market Supervision of the Communist Party of China imposed a fine of 18.2 billion yuan on Alibaba Group for violating the Anti-Monopoly Law. This is reportedly the highest fine amount issued since the implementation of the statute.
The sky-high fine, apparently in response to Jack Ma’s criticism of the mainland’s financial regulatory system last year, makes it clear that the CCP will not allow anyone to “say anything” about the way it is governed; it deters those who cross the line, makes an example of the monkeys, and raises a lot of revenue for the CCP, killing three birds with one stone.
Under the heavy fist, Ali yielded. Netizens began to discuss “monopoly” enthusiastically: “ccp one-party dictatorship, monopoly of electricity, water, oil, housing and almost all areas, I wonder how much should be fined?” “The biggest monopoly is our party, which does not allow the people to ‘choose one or the other’, only one party can be dominant and no opposition party can exist. This fine who will enforce it!?” “China Petroleum Sinopec Telecom Unicom State Industry, Agriculture and Commerce Construction Bank which is not a monopoly. Ali is wrong to steal the monopolist’s rice bowl.”
The Chinese Communist Party is indeed the biggest monopolist. First of all, it has monopolized the ruling power in China, firmly rejecting multi-party rule in rotation, refusing democratic elections and people’s supervision, refusing introspection and review. In order to maintain one-party dictatorship, the CCP uses the military, armed police, judiciary, propaganda and other state apparatus to suppress all questioning and resistance. This monopoly has led to various social problems in politics, economy, legal system and morality, breeding a large number of illegal incidents and a large number of corrupt officials, and it is the people from all walks of life in China who suffer.
Secondly, the CCP has monopolized all kinds of resources and means of production, and nationalized everything, i.e., owned by the Party. In 1982, the Communist Party officially announced the nationalization of urban land, changing private land into state land overnight, but the government did not notify the owners of each house, nor did it go through any procedures for acquisition or requisition. Afterwards, the “state” built houses and sold them to the residents for 70 years, thus making a fortune again and again.
On June 22 last year, a large number of armed police officers armed with shields and batons attempted to forcibly demolish villas in the “Prizeburg” neighborhood outside of Changping, Beijing.
According to a report by the Epoch Times, the incident involved “small property rights houses” approved by the Changping District Government, which were initially built under a tripartite contract between the village committee, the developer and the owners, but were later demolished in batches by the Chinese Communist authorities as illegal structures.
In response, mainland netizens commented, “The Chinese Communist Party is really a rogue government. Coaxing the people to take out their grandchildren’s savings to buy houses, and then find a way to take them away, not to mention the blood money, labeled as ‘unauthorized building’, without any compensation.”
Third, tied to resources, CCP state-owned enterprises have a near monopoly on oil, electricity, coal, telecommunications, civil aviation, finance, etc., and the leading companies among them are often controlled by individual powerful families or factions, for example, Zhou Yongkang’s family controls the mainland’s oil industry and Jiang Zemin’s family controls the domestic telecommunications industry. Such monopolies restrict market competition and create widespread corruption.
Fourth, the CCP also has a monopoly on domestic newspapers, television, television stations and the Internet, and all media organizations must be named “Party. The largest circulation newspapers in China are party newspapers, which are required to be subscribed at public expense by all levels from the central government to the provinces, which is the biggest waste in the press. The CCP’s Propaganda Department, Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Internet Information Office are also responsible for censoring the press, Internet, publications, television, and movies, pervasively controlling information and manipulating public opinion.
In 2008, after the Sanlu tainted milk powder incident was exposed, the Ministry of Propaganda ordered on September 14 of the same year that mainland media were forbidden to report on the incident without authorization and that all reports must be officially announced or reported by Xinhua News Agency.
Guo Guoting, a lawyer, has written that under China’s authoritarian system, media invested by private capital are subject to a harsh environment in which “the slightest misstep can lead to the end of the road and the closure of their publications, so they are either complicit in the Communist Party’s mouthpiece or forced to close down because the Communist Party will never allow any dissenting voices. As a result, private capital and foreign capital entered the Chinese media and became the accompaniment.”
In his article, “One Careless Move and You’re Screwed,” mainland journalist Shi Tao writes, “China has not had a single privately run radio or television station to date – the constitutional rights of citizens to freedom of speech and freedom of publication are null and void, while privately set up or run Internet sites can be shut down at any time for speaking out of line The state and local press and publication departments ignore the Constitution, not to mention respecting citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and publication, and are quick to brutally censor the media, blocking writers, scholars and citizens’ rights to speak that the government does not like, and …… punishing journalists who dare to speak out the truth. “
After the outbreak in Wuhan last year, Dr. Li Wenliang, the “whistle blower,” was admonished; three citizen journalists, Fang Bin, Chen Qiushi and Zhang Zhan, who were on the ground, were arrested by the authorities, and Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison, while Fang Bin’s whereabouts remain unknown. The international community has pointed out that the CCP’s filtering and control of information has delayed the fight against the epidemic at home and abroad, leading to a pandemic and a tragic global public health disaster.
In summary, the CCP’s unscrupulous monopoly to retain power and gain profit has impeded sound economic development and information flow, negatively impacted social justice and human rights development, and caused significant damage to more than one billion nationals and the global population.
Today, when the Chinese Communist Party accuses Alibaba of monopoly, the nation might as well reflect: How to eliminate the Communist Party, the largest monopoly group, from the game?
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