I think the central point of the article is that the Chinese government is deviating from their stated policy by punishing Alibaba with the 6 month freeze, thus making it newsworthy.
Does the article say that? The article says that the law encourages them to notify the government first, which it doesn't seem to.
At the same time, the article doesn't say that China is going to stop supporting Alibaba Cloud, just that that the MIIT is freezing cybersecurity cooperation, as far as I understand the article there is no legal punishment or serious financial punishment, and it's not even clear that the cooperation with the MIIT didn't have other terms. It's not clear either that they followed the 2-day period.
From my understanding, Chinese government didn't punish Alibaba according to the regulation discussed above.
Given that the punishment is rather obscure and really weak (okay, your country's CERT felt pissed off and won't talk to you for 6 months, but for megacorps like Alibaba, would they really care?), I don't think they are willing to break the rule, at least for now.
