Breaking!!! Alibaba’s Security Arm Self Reveals Deep Integration with CCP’s Political-Legal System

In a disclosure on the official website of the Cyber Security Association of China, Alibaba Group’s Security Department describes itself in terms that reveal its close alignment with China’s state security and judicial apparatus.

Founded in 2005, the department claims responsibility for protecting account security, information security, and transaction security across the Alibaba ecosystem. It highlights its use of big data and real-time risk controls, as well as its role in combating online fraud.

But more strikingly, the department states that it includes personnel drawn directly from China’s law enforcement and judicial organs—“public security elites, case experts from the procuratorate, and case-handling experts from the court system.” This unusual integration suggests that Alibaba’s security operations are not merely commercial, but deeply entangled with China’s political-legal system (政法系统), which is overseen by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.

The description further notes that Alibaba Security works in “close cooperation with numerous government intelligence departments.” In practice, this positions the company as a direct extension of state policing and surveillance functions, raising questions about the independence of a supposedly private enterprise.

The disclosure provides rare official confirmation that Alibaba functions as part of the CCP’s broader apparatus of social control, blurring the line between commercial cybersecurity and the Party-state’s political-legal enforcement system.