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HachimansGhost t1_iybuhe1 wrote

"Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, hiding out in Tokyo, report say" Written by Jack Ma. Edited by Jack Ma. Source by Jack Ma.

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pickles_and_mustard t1_iybi808 wrote

This is the first I've heard about him since he spent a few weeks in China's re-education camp. And now this...

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jeffersonairmattress t1_iybvrlu wrote

By one of several possible originators, this information is being carefully curated for our consumption. Ma could be long dead and there’s a need to make him “live on a little longer;” he may be in Vegas playing blue whale; Japan may have agreed to help obfuscate a vacation to Cancun with the fam; he’s still getting premium re-education at Camp Hunny; nobody knows where he is but he’s given Japan et al carte blanche to troll his minders… Statecraft is fun for the whole family.

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Azmoten t1_iycnb7g wrote

Jack Ma never existed; there’s a little Jack Ma in all of us; the real Jack Ma was the friends we made along the way.

The possibilities really are endless.

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entenduintransit t1_iybs8b1 wrote

The title of this post makes it seem like he's writing about himself being discovered

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tedcruzrileycurry t1_iyc8aag wrote

If I had billions of dollars, Tokyo wouldn’t be a bad place to live.

Actually, I would like to start a business or whatever I had to do to become a citizen of Ireland and get one of those castles.

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chrisfyb t1_iycmste wrote

Well, I can sell you a plot of land and title first if you'd like!

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nsci2ece t1_iyddk96 wrote

As a huge fan of Japanese food, Japan is definitely a place where I'd own property and spend at least a few months a year if I were filthy rich.

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thefiglord t1_iyct5yz wrote

if its a billion juan he has nothing outside of china and if its a billion in US dollars they wont let him take that either

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Changy915 t1_iydcj9x wrote

With a billion juan, he can just move to south america

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Weak-Noise t1_iydhqma wrote

With a billion Juan, he can just start his own south east America

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AugustWest7120 t1_iybgixz wrote

Talk about a real life action movie - possibly. I would hope he has security.

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Vipertje t1_iycfz8x wrote

Unless I see some footage and not some obscure pictures. The man is gone. He gambled and lost

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anon902503 t1_iybvjnj wrote

Sorry, what was his sin that caused the regime to turn on him?

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homo_balcanicus t1_iyc08hy wrote

He tried to do subprime mortgages, which happen to be the cause of the 2008 economic crisis in the US, and the government wasn't very amused by this idea. He is also the main proponent of the 996 system (having workers work from 9AM to 9PM for 6 days a week) which is not very popular among the common chinese, so cracking down on him would be popular with the public.

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code_archeologist t1_iybwdxx wrote

Ma's FinTech company Ant Group (which is funded by his Alibaba fortune) is a direct challenge to the CCPs centralized hold on the nation's capital. So they are cracking down on him and trying to seize his assets.

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JohnPlayerSpecia1 t1_iycy7oh wrote

he was allowed to live after he basically relinquished all that he had and "donated" it all to Xi the communist party

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Traditional-Oven4092 t1_iycrfnz wrote

The real Jack Ma is long gone, the ccp probably had clones of him.

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