{"id":55341,"date":"2023-05-21T20:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/21\/china-expert-chris-marquis-tech-crackdown-xi-maoism"},"modified":"2023-05-21T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:50:32","slug":"we-in-the-west-were-blinded-china-crackdown-on-business-has-maoist-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55341","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We in the west were blinded\u2019: China crackdown on business has Maoist roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Anti-spying\u2019 raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris Marquis<\/p>\n<p>To many western investors, China under president Xi Jinping is a tough nut to crack. While Chinese leaders insist that they welcome foreign investment, the ruling party\u2019s extension of control to companies, with crackdowns on domestic tech giants and more recently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/china-targets-foreign-consulting-companies-in-anti-spying-raids\">\u201canti-spying\u201d raids<\/a> on consulting firms, including America\u2019s blue chip Bain &amp; Company, are puzzling to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Marquis, author and professor of Chinese management at the University of Cambridge, believes that part of the explanation lies in the ruling party\u2019s ideology. He says one must \u201cdig into the Maoist roots in Chinese institutions and political economy to try to understand ideas that Xi has\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/21\/china-expert-chris-marquis-tech-crackdown-xi-maoism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Anti-spying\u2019 raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris MarquisTo many western investors, China under president Xi Jinping is a tough nut to crack. While Chinese leaders insist that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,662,667,560,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-communism","category-espionage","category-technology-sector","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55342,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341\/revisions\/55342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}