X @Balaji

Yes.One thesis is that Xi Jack Ma’d Jack Ma so that Jack Ma couldn’t Elon Xi.Meaning: Xi seized Jack Ma’s assets and drove similar Chinese tech founders into subservience or exile, so that Jack Ma (or someone like him) couldn’t use his fortune to challenge the ruling Party, like Elon did in America.So: in China, the State won over the Network. But in America, the Network won over the State.Elon freed speech with X, and tech freed media with AI and freed money with crypto. Technologists did not bend the knee ...