For China's business elites, staying out of politics is no longer an option

BEIJING (NYTIMES) - Liu Chuanzhi, the founder of the tech company Lenovo and a towering figure in China's private sector, has long held the view that business people should steer clear of politics. Yet he recently found out firsthand that in President Xi Jinping's China, which is engaged in a tech cold war with the United States, business cannot just be business. Over the past week, Liu became collateral damage when the ride-hailing giant Didi, where his daughter Jean Liu is a top executive, came under fire after its blockbuster initial public offering in New York. Chinese regulators ordered the…