Jackie Chan wants to join the party? Say it isn't so

[Charlie_Jack]

I’ve gotten the impression that joining the CCP has been sort of normalized:

In November of 2002, after years of controversy, the Chinese Communist Party officially welcomed private business owners into its ranks, formalizing the political status of China’s “red capitalists.”

Kristen D. Paris, review of Bruce J. Dickson, Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change, in The China Journal, No. 52, July 2004

I guess Mr. Chan qualifies as some kind of businessperson:

Jackie Chan | Entrepreneurship and philanthropy

I think this kind of thing has been touched upon at least once on the board, albeit in an indirect fashion:

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When it comes to the Chinese language, I’m slow and I stumble around in the dark a lot, so I could be completely mistaken as to what I’ve pasted below, and I certainly don’t wish to defame anyone: https://m.weibo.cn/status/Cy1Z5D4Ar