Posted on 01/26/2021 6:21:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Voice of America News (VOA) reported Monday that a theory about the curious disappearance of Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is growing in credibility among foreign observers: the true goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pressuring Ma into handing over the vast trove of consumer credit data accumulated by his Alibaba e-commerce company and its titanic financial services offshoot, the Ant Group.
The flamboyant Ma, a multimedia celebrity in addition to once being China’s richest man, vanished from the public eye after criticizing the CCP’s heavy-handed financial regulators at a public forum in October. When speculation about his disappearance grew uncomfortable in early January, Chinese state media ominously reported Ma was busy “embracing supervision” and began trashing his reputation, referring to him as a “traitor” and a greedy “vampire.”
Ma reappeared, in a very limited fashion, on January 20 by delivering a video address to an award ceremony for teachers. His exact whereabouts remained unclear. By the time he resurfaced, Ma was no longer China’s richest man, having lost almost a quarter of his net worth while Chinese regulators broke up the Ant Group.
Some speculated Ma was quietly detained and “re-educated” after he spoke out against the CCP, while others thought he was keeping a low profile while attempting to save as much of his business empire as possible from regulators. Almost everyone assumed the incident was Chinese dictator Xi Jinping teaching Ma a harsh lesson about who runs China. Ma had become so rich and popular that he was seen as a real threat to Xi’s authoritarian rule.
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The CCP will get all the info on those sad suckers who bought MVMT watches instead of buying decent Seikos from Long Island Watches.
He should have been smart enough to stay out of there
Maybe when this is all over Mr. Ma will be a hero for standing up to CCP thugs.
RE: Maybe when this is all over Mr. Ma will be a hero for standing up to CCP thugs.
Assuming he’s still in one piece...
Alibaba is a sham. Never trusted that place, thank god never used it.
Does anyone know of a Patriot group dedicated to taking on the CCP here at home?
For the life of me, I don’t know why it can’t be FR. With sht-eating grins.
Pressuring? Yeah, right.
RE: Pressuring? Yeah, right.
OK, what’s the right word to use?
“pressuring”
Uh Huh. As in, “do what we say and like, or not. You’re doing it anyway. Say hi to the Uighars.”
“Maybe when this is all over Mr. Ma will be a hero for standing up to CCP thugs.”
Ma is a CCP thug.
He is not a good guy.
“Alibaba is a sham. Never trusted that place, thank god never used it.”
Yes. Whole thing is a sham. Ma is a sham.
Does anyone know of a Patriot group dedicated to taking on the CCP here at home?
For the life of me, I don’t know why it can’t be FR. With sht-eating grins.
Jiang Zemin got Freeped back in the day.
Yeah....but I’m thinking something a little more than FReeping is necessary. State-wide banners, alliances, and actual state strategy to knock the Chinese crap off the shelves.
Sounds almost as bad ad Twatter and Farcebook.
I don't know what the correct word would be, but it calls into question the exact relationship between the CCP and Chinese corporations.
As far as we know, Chinese corporations are (somewhat) privately owned but are still controlled by the CCP. It appears that the CCP can help itself to anything owned by the corporation, either by going through channels or just shoving executives out of the way and taking it.
Your question also leads to another very interesting point and that is why is the CCP telling us (the free world) that it is "pressuring" Jack Ma when we know there is no need for "pressure"?
Is the CCP trying to create the appearance of independence re: its corporations...just for American consumption?
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