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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He’s a goner...
Dead or jailed for life.
It’s the CCP way...
Looks to me like the government already knows where he is.
This fortune cookie has already been read.
If you’re a Chinese billionaire, you can just vanish. No need to even get plastic surgery or grow a beard. Orientals can blend in wherever and just be another Chinaman.
He has been CCPd no doubt.
Mongolian merchandise magnate, Mister Ma maybe missing.
My mistake. It’s Joseph’s Tsai who owns 100% of the Nets. He bought the arena separately. he brought both from Russian billionaire Mikhail prokhorov.
RUH-ROH
The first day someone becomes a billionaire in China they should start planning on how to escape China.
“Despite being one of China’s most successful businessmen, Mr Ma has increasingly clashed with the regime...”
Pretty sure him being successful was the cause of those clashes. I know a gal that came from the outer-reaches of China where they are now holding the muslims in camps.
I asked he husband “Oh - was she raised a muslim?”
“No - even worse. Her grandfather owned a small shop and was a ‘Capitalist’”.
The gal argues that she wasn’t raised in a camp. Her American husband, who visited the town, said there are numerous actual fenced-in camps around the town, and the town itself has cameras all around and you have to pass check stations to enter or leave the area - so in his mind the entire region is a “camp”.
That may be the one positive thing I can say about Socialism/communism. It will be the end of the billionaires who supported it.
Like antifa and BLM are DNC
A poster child of the way the CCP plays the game.
A object lesson to all the Tech Oligarchs, on how the CCP plays the game.
Gates, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, et al, think they are immune to the CCP.
It is a foolish idea. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP is unified, disciplined, and is ruthless. They will brook no dissent nor independent power structures as the Tech Oligarchs attempt to create a global government.
Because of that, the Tech Oligarchs will either bend to the CCP will, or be destroyed, if they succeed in destroying the USA as the leading superpower.
Kinda sad that this is what it takes to prove a billionaire isn’t a cronyist.
Soon the CCP came callinging, wanting to know where he got the money for the deal and besides
Communism forbids ownership of private property. Push came to shove, and now the CCP owns the Waldorf...one of its many US holdings.
SCHADENFREUD: the Waldorf reopened selling million dollar condos at the same time the pandemic hit.
China has something like 240,000,000 cameras used for facial recognition
The Government allowed him to become a billionaire, now it will take it away.
Kind of like that actress a few years ago, she wandered off script, so they took her and 300 million dollars from her.
Governments are extortion rackets with the authority of law. The more centralized and powerful, the more dangerous and capricious.
No question.
It’s back.
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