Posted on 01/01/2021 9:00:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of China’s richest man after he criticised the regime.
Jack Ma has vanished from his own TV talent show and there has been no sign of him since late October.
The 56-year-old is said to have made around £35 billion from creating Alibaba, the Asian version of Amazon, and was a poster boy for the communist regime.
But China’s rulers seemed to turn against him after he criticised regulators and state-owned banks at a financial technology conference in October.
His profile has gone from the judging webpage of Africa’s Business Heroes – a Dragons’ Den-style TV programme for budding entrepreneurs. The final took place without him and he is also absent from promotional videos.
Weeks before the final in November, Mr Ma had tweeted that he ‘couldn’t wait’ to meet the contestants. There has been no activity since then on the father-of-three’s Twitter account, one that had regularly seen several tweets a day.
Despite being one of China’s most successful businessmen, Mr Ma has increasingly clashed with the regime over his preferences for more of an open and market-driven economy. There is no suggestion so far that he has come to physical harm.
Until recently he had been a leading light of China’s unique approach to generating wealth by unleashing market forces within a tightly-controlled communist framework.
The English teacher turned business magnate commanded near rock star status and even played an unconquerable kung fu master in a star-studded 2017 film.
And even while tensions between the US and China were deepening, Mr Ma was able to extend an olive branch by donating 2,000 ventilators to New York with his right-hand man Joe Tsai, prompting a thank you from Donald Trump.
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In the process Mr Ma, who is married to Cathy Zhang, 55, has completely disappeared from public view – a sudden change all the more remarkable given his previously huge public profile.
The authorities have also announced an anti-monopoly investigation into Alibaba.
Who owns the Brooklyn Nets now?
RE: Who owns the Brooklyn Nets now?
I did not know that Jack Ma has a stake in one of the NBA teams ...
Doesn’t he know what he can get away with? I don’t speak Mandarin and I’ve never been to China, but I know that you can’t get away with criticizing the government
"Owns....Owns!"
He has too much influence for his own good.
MORE TROUBLE FOR JACK MA:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Jack-Ma-s-Alibaba-and-Ant-targeted-by-China-regulators
TITLE: Jack Ma’s Alibaba and Ant targeted by China regulators
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Chinese authorities launched an antimonopoly investigation against e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding and summoned executives at its Ant Group finance affiliate for talks, in a sign that Beijing is heightening its crackdown on Jack Ma’s business interests and the power of the country’s tech giants.
Alibaba’s shares fell sharply in response to the probe. Its Hong Kong-traded shares ended 8.1% lower at HK$228.20.
In one of the first probes of its kind into the influential conglomerate founded by Ma, the State Administration for Market Regulation said that, in response to complaints, it is investigating allegations that Alibaba has required vendors to list products exclusively on its platforms.
The real cancel culture!
“Hit the Road, Jack...and don’cha come back no more no more no more no more....”
We are already seeing it here and it will intensify. This is why the tech boys and media or going with the Democrat Party ideological line. They are trying to survive what they see coming. It is the common people who do NOT have a clue.
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Until recently he had been a leading light of China’s unique approach to generating wealth by unleashing market forces within a tightly-controlled communist framework.
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Market forces and government control are like matter and anti-matter.
Ha ha Ma.
ChiCom through and through. Success based in ChiCom thugocracy in the first place.
He can’t complain.
CitizenFreePress just vanished off the web also.
Think the same couldn’t happen to Bezos if he falls out of line with the Deep State?
In china, nothing belongs to you, even your own person. The CCP will crush anyone or anything they deem necessary to their own power and survival.
You think it's any different here, now?
“Doesn’t he know what he can get away with? I don’t speak Mandarin and I’ve never been to China, but I know that you can’t get away with criticizing the government”.
Ma is Communist party. He is government.
He’s scum like all of them. This is infighting power struggle.
He used the oppressive state to make his money. Now he gets to feel it.
Ma is CCP.
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