Published 18:07 IST, January 21st 2021
Jack Ma 'reappears' amid speculations of death or detention, netizens say 'he is back'
After Twitteratis believed that Ma was probably dead or detained by China's government, he reappeared giving virtual lecture to 100 teachers in southern Hainan.
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Twitter on January 20 launched meme fest after long-missing Chinese business tycoon Jack Ma reappeared in an online video after 2.5-month absence. While critics of Jinping’s communist regime h suspected Alibaba Group’s CEO’s arbitrary detention after he me disparaging statements against Communist-ruled China’s government and business counsellors in favour of free tre, Internet on Wednesday was rendered shocked to watch him make a speech to rural educators.
Ma’s remarks h led to suspension of preliminary public providing IPO of Ant Group on vember 3 last year, and he was summoned by PRC’s communist party for condemning Chinese financial regulators publicly. He h alleged that survival of business empires was me difficult to sustain in country with a communist outlook, which prompted an antitrust probe against him.
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On Wednesday, as China’s state-run press posted a clip of e-commerce billionaire dressing teachers in a 50-second video, Twitteratis flooded social media with side-splitting jokes and memes about Ma’s resurfacing. Users jokes about circumstances under which tycoon who h vanished from public view suddenly popped up months later. Many cracked witty one-liners about 56-year-old’s unexpected return, sharing stills from Bollywood comedy flicks.
Many speculated that Ma h stayed low key after “regulators suspended Ant’s IPO, tightened finance tech rules, ordered an overhaul of Ant and launched an antitrust probe into Alibaba.” Several ors expressed astonishment, having assumed that mogul was perhaps de. Ma was inste giving a virtual lecture to at least 100 teachers in sourn Hainan, recognizing ir remarkable achievements.
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Off public rar
Ma’s whereabouts became unkwn as he went totally off public rar, sparking concerns about his well being among media outlets and people worldwide. While Alibaba’s spokesperson h publicly refused to make statements about Ma’s location, Primavera Group CEO and former Chinese Goldman Sachs’ chairman h clarified in media that Ma was intact well, and physically sound. Ma was increasingly skeptical about disappearance of a Chinese judge who skipped Africa’s Business Heroes for budding entrepreneurs and his posters were removed from contest. Ma disappeared shortly after he openly lambasted China’s regulators and authoritarian leer Xi Jinping. Tycoons called Ma’s disappearance as a ‘design’ by CCP for presenting dissenting views against his government publicly.
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18:07 IST, January 21st 2021