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?
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
The real cancel culture!
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.
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.
RUH-ROH
“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.
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.