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All that money means nothing in China especially if you criticise the CCP.
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma suspected missing
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All that money means nothing in China especially if you criticise the CCP.
Silly from him. I wonder if he thought his money and relative fame in the West would somehow protect him from the CCP.
He'll probably reappear in a few weeks, repentant and silent in the future.
He'll probably reappear in a few weeks, repentant and silent in the future.
All that money and what good it does, if this is the case.
Clearly needed re-educating.
BABA shares gonna tank.
This is the sort of thing that will eventually bring China down. Tyranny has it's limits. As people become wealthier and more powerful, the ego's will clash with those in power. Eventually it's going to create resentment. If Jack has anyone sense he'll be using his billions to buy people in the CCP to stop this happening again.
He looks like a middle aged toddler.
Reckon he escaped by posting himself. Probably still in the post and will arrive in 4-8 weeks
I’ve finally come up with a positive from the Brexit referendum result - the end of George Osbourne’s policy of promoting the UK as China’s natural investment hub in Europe.
Don't think the CCP would dare do something to him.
To make a point to the existing and raising billionaires? I definitely think they will dare. Actually they already did if he disappeared from October. That alone is nuts
They have millions in concentration camps. Pulling down a rich and connected person who defies the Party is something they've done before and will do again, but compared to the other things they're doing it's hardly up there as far as tyranny goes. Your wealth is meaningless in a totalitarian system, as long as your wealth is directly tied to the system itself. No one's wealth ever stopped Stalin.
The billions didn’t save the Russian billionaires from Putin.
Specially when the west will never interfere because they have so much interests in China
Money cannot always buy power, it would be his reputation that protects him.
In any case, he's probably fine.
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It saved the ones who allegedly handed him half their wealth to save their asses.
I laughed out loud when he said ‘give me back my pen’
Is brutal
How can you be suspected of being missing? Have they checked his bedroom to make sure?
That clip is funny but it’s just as performative as DT ranting after Arsenal lose. Putin is more a primus inter pares rather than a Stalin who can order a rival to be topped.
Yep. The difference between the pseudo-authoritarianism of Putin's Russia and the full on totalitarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union (but perhaps not pre or post-Stalin, though that is debatable). China is definitely in the latter category.
China is definitely not on the Stalin's Soviet Union. The West is deeply entrenched with China at consumerism level, at supply chain level and debt level among other things
Sure, but totalitarianism is politics, not necessarily economics. China is much more connected and opened to the rest of the world economically than it was a few decades ago, but the state has paradoxically even more control than it did then.
He is hand-delivering shirts for @bazalini
I've been getting emails from a Jackie Ma lately at work.
Owns a property that we rent space from.
probably just under Tier "locked you in your own fecking house" lockdown..
They wouldn’t bat an eye to do something to him.
Me too.
I’ve got a feeling he was shipped from China but has been lost in the post en route. Hopefully he’ll get returned to sender.
I don't think so. At the same time Stalin was a 1 guy party also. CCP seems much more like a sect. I get your point and accept it partially, but I don't agree with the iron fist that Stalin had on the CCCP. At the same time, precisely is the economy that allows the CCP exert this control inside and outside the country.
A bit odd that this is going around the world - you'd think he'd pop and say hey all, I'm fine?
It was not uncommon for prominent people to disappear for a few months when i lived there. They would reappear as if nothing happened, having understood the error of their ways and apologised to the Chinese people.
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Seems like he's fine, although a video doesn't really say that much.
jack ma and kim jong un, both resurrected from the dead. who next?!
Ma, he's back.
He’s probably in a hollowed out mountain in New Zealand.
My Chinese is rusty but I think he's saying send help
His re-education has been completed.