Is the CEO of Atlassian required to join a specific political party in order to remain CEO? Because that’s how it works in China. The 2 are not comparable.
There's this radical concept called the burden of proof that's been around in debate since antiquity.
Do you have any proof that Zhang Yiming has been forced to become a CCP member or lose his job? Hell I'll even make this easier for you: any evidence whatsoever that he's actually a member of the CCP?
That aside you honestly think Mike Cannon-Brookes would hold some moral highground and throw away his billions if all it costed was some lipservice and a $50 signup fee to be a party member? He managed to complain a few times after being forced into becoming a 5eyes spying vassal but besides that didn't do a single thing to stop it.
Its a fake dilemma you've created here, Chief executives do far worse things all the time than kowtow to their respective governments and when push comes to shove they all back down because it's worth it.
“ByteDance's CEO Zhang Yiming did what he had to do to protect himself and his company, releasing a letter of apology that signaled loyalty to Xi Jinping's hard-line agenda.” [0]
Mark Zuckerberg criticized the US Government's handling of Covid[1]. Do you believe ByteDance's CEO Zhang Yiming would do the same or anything similar?
