The real issue now is that i am afraid Ant Financial will not be as valuable as it would have been prior to its first IPO. Even if they were to list in future (if they even do anymore), they will be valued far less than what they should have been prior to the CCP pulling off the rug on them. It seems to me that Xi Jinping is hell bent on cutting down these big private tech companies to size and bring down their influence/scale. Since Xi Jinping has openly said his policy is to strengthen the state and by default state owned companies, something private tech companies like Alibaba, Ant financial and the likes threaten the power and reach of state owned corporations. In fact if not for the CCP closing up and forbidden any private sector involvement in other core sectors like Telecom, finance, oil and gas, tobacco, electricity etc then private companies will be very active in these sectors and they would have been a few large private companies that emerged in these sectors as well.
So this new laws and actions the party has taken should be taken very seriously, since this shows a change of policy and how things are going to be done from now on moving forward. It seems the party will be having more say and control over private companies like they already do with SOE.. this would include giving a company’s internal Party group control over the human resources decisions of the enterprise and allowing it to carry out company audits, including monitoring internal behaviour. So the party will be having more say and control/oversight over private companies(Especially the large influential ones). We will need to wait and see how these will affect the operations of these companies abroad,
I think China should just break down these big companies into small ones or they can just nationalize them and have the state take control over these companies and the decision making in this companies. Easy solution. That way there will never be a case of a big private company that grows to a certain size. Another solution will be to simply extend the state monopoly over these sectors and ban private participation/involvement in these sectors like in other sectors where the state has monopoly already.