{"id":21139,"date":"2018-11-05T07:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21139"},"modified":"2018-11-05T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T07:22:42","slug":"why-chinas-tech-giants-are-cozying-up-to-the-communist-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21139","title":{"rendered":"Why China&#8217;s tech giants are cozying up to the Communist Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>China&#8217;s biggest ride-hailing company has a new plan to beef up customer service: hire 1,000 members of the ruling Communist Party. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The move by Didi Chuxing, a $56 billion startup, shows how leading Chinese tech firms, once hesitant to advertise political connections, are now increasingly promoting their ties to the party \u2014 especially after running into trouble with authorities. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Tech entrepreneurs are seeking to burnish their party credentials, gain brownie points,&#8221; said Duncan Clark, the chairman of Beijing-based investment advisory firm BDA.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)China&#8217;s biggest ride-hailing company has a new plan to beef up customer service: hire 1,000 members of the ruling Communist Party. The move by Didi Chuxing, a $56 billion startup, shows how leading Chinese tech firms, once hesitant to advertise political connections, are now increasingly promoting their ties to the party \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}