Jack Ma’s error, in Jiang’s reading, was believing wealth and popularity could let him question central authority.
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Central Authority
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"...the crackdown on Jack Ma. Because Jack Ma pushed back against central authority. And you can't do that in China."
"You can't question the authority of the government. And Jack Ma, he was the richest man in China. He was the most popular man..."
"...Dante is able to do what he's do, because there's no central authority in place. They were too busy fighting each other, exactly. Okay?..."
"...fact that this is a city -state system so there's no central authority the pope cannot enforce this authority on florence you had as..."
"...there'll be the new dark ages there'll be there'll be no central authority there'll be catastrophe after catastrophe um there'll be floods everywhere there'll..."
"...So Parliament solves this problem. Because now if Parliament is the central authority, the central sovereignty in the land, then you are not lending..."
"...why the Greeks were able to innovate. Open means there's no central authority. There's no government. Cooperative means that you're separate, but you're still..."
"...a time of war and chaos. In the borderlands, there's no central authority. So they're always fighting each other. So they make very good..."
"...legitimize the authority of David and to make people understand the central authority of this religion is the temple in Jerusalem. But as we..."
"...creativity, okay? So let me explain why. Open means there's no central authority. There's no great power, okay? There's no hegemon. Everyone's competing against..."
"...lift generated by the top -down kind of, you know, the central authorities wanting Shanghai to do well on this."
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