I guess the evil Chinese authoritarian school teachers even infiltrated the IMF and told them Taiwan is a province of China.

Free market? As in, competition between different enterprises? And what do you think happens when one company “wins” that competition? It will use that power to establish a monopoly (or a cartel with a couple buddy companies). Both “free market” and “private monopoly” are capitalist fenomena, just at different stages of development of industry.

Real heroes are in the comments.