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Guo Wengui said back in September 2019 that "Jack Ma would be jailed or killed" on Kyle Bass's youtube channel. [1]

At this point its not even a question of whether we will see Jack Ma in public again. Overnight he went from billionaire to peasantry. We've seen dozen cases like this:

1) Billionaire disappears or is "killed"

2) Billionaire's company becomes nationalized

3) Rinse & Repeat

Everybody who isn't familiar with the inner workings of the CCP thinks that Jack Ma openly challenged the CCP. That simply isn't the case. They are using as an excuse to take over the company because they can.

As much as people in the West praise CCP's economic rise, and some even point to its authoritarian system as superior to our democracy, but little do they know the very laws that protect them isn't an option in China.

Imagine spending most of your life building a massive business and then one day it is taken from you by force by an authoritarian ruler.

This is why anyone that has money send their kids abroad and move permanently to a Western country that their kids despise and criticize their host for calling out the CCP.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJK_5qDraM

parent f430 5 years ago

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