He's Alive! Alibaba founder Jack Ma is lying low for the time being, but he’s not missing

CNBC ^ | 01/05/2021 | Lauren Feiner

[SeekAndFind]

After reports speculating about Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s whereabouts, CNBC’s David Faber reported Tuesday that the billionaire is not missing, according to a person familiar with the matter. Instead, Ma has been lying low for the time being, Faber reported.

Outlets including The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Ma has not been seen in public since he spoke at a forum in late October where he appeared to be critical of China’s financial regulators.

Shortly after, Ma’s Ant Group saw its record-setting initial public offering suspended by stock exchanges in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Ma and two Ant Group executives were summoned and interviewed by regulators in China, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a November statement.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Maybe hiding from the chicoms after he criticized the regime.

[RummyChick]

stock back up today
almost bought some yesterday

but I wouldnt believe this story is any more true than any of the other stuff China puts out there

he is probably being deprogrammed and being threatened

[frank ballenger]

Bob Dylan “It’s Alright, Ma, I’m Only Bleeding.”

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn that he not busy being born
Is busy dying
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be
One more person crying
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing

[Zhang Fei]

Bitcoin’s total market cap is $350b. A sizeable chunk of that increase may be due to Chinese capital flight, as the nation’s wealthy magnates come under siege from Xi Jinping:

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[Report finds $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved out of China hinting at capital flight against Beijing rules]
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/china-users-move-50-billion-of-cryptocurrency-out-of-country-hinting-at-capital-flight.html

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Why are China’s rich moving their money out? Chinese regimes have a history of seizing* the property of its magnates** for their own use. Movements of money out of China deprive the regime of the ability to rob them - and it is robbery done at gunpoint - of their property. In addition, the current regime isn’t too happy about the exodus of capital because the sheer volume of such movements could tank the currency, resulting in the kind of hyper-inflation that was a factor in the collapse of the pre-Communist regime.

* It’s not even unique to China. Edward Longshanks of England deported the Jews and seized their property. Philip IV of France did the same and topped Edward by dismantling the Knights Templar, a Christian organization long involved in Crusades for the Holy Land, and seizing their property.

** It’s within the realm of possibility that Alibaba’s Jack Ma will have his $57b personal fortune seized. Any Chinese tycoon who hasn’t already taken a sizeable chunk of his assets out of China isn’t thinking long term. The lefty media has gone along with the Chinese regime’s account of this capital flight as money laundering. In reality, it’s money laundering the way white farmers taking their money out of Rhodesia were engaged in money laundering - it’s Marxist lingo applied to people who resist having their life’s work stolen from them.

[Gene Eric]

Good news.

[AZJeep]

Probably lost few teeth and had few ribs broken. Now he is recovering.
Will come back full strength praising chairman Xi.

[Zhang Fei]

[Maybe hiding from the chicoms after he criticized the regime.]

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They’re trading in euphemisms. The likelihood is that he’s under house arrest. Xi Jinping isn’t being upfront about Ma’s detention because he fears massive capital flight. If Xi can target Ma, who can’t he target. The average Chinese tycoon is living in a dream world, much like the Jews who stayed in Greater Germany after Kristallnacht.

[Zhang Fei]

[Good news.]

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Likely fake news. The suspicion wasn’t truly that he was missing. It’s that he was arrested. Note that there’s no denial that he’s been arrested. Reading between the lines, as we must with statements emanating from a pitiless dictatorship, he’s under house arrest.

[datura]

On an older thread on Ma someone posted the truth:

The CCP allows its subjects to keep their money as long as it benefits the CCP.

Xi Jinping is more ruthless and deceitful than Mao ever was. Mao was honest in comparison as he never hid his intentions.

[BenLurkin]

Look what they’ve done to my song, Ma.

[Seruzawa]

Alibaba. The world's premiere purveyor of Chinese counterfeit goods.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Any Chinese tycoon who hasn’t already taken a sizeable chunk of his assets out of China isn’t thinking long term.

Jack Ma has a few billions OUTSIDE China. Not all of his $45 Billion, but who needs that much to live comfortably?

[frank ballenger]

LOL

[Dr. Ursus]

He’s down to one kidney?

[minnesota_bound]

One of his kidneys is missing. He has been told if does not cooperate with the communist party then his other kidney will go missing....