Jack ma. Jack Ma is back: why was the Chinese billionaire of Alibaba missing for months?

His life is nothing less than the story of Robert, The Bruce and the Spider, that we were taught as kindergartens Some commentators suggest regulators are making an example of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba
Superstar actress Fan Bingbing, for example, in 2018 before reappearing a year later to apologize for a tax evasion scandal The trouble started in late October after Ma criticized China's regulators at a conference in Shanghai

It's hard to imagine Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, vanishing from the public eye for nearly three months.

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Coinciding with his disappearance is Chinese state-owned media's heated up online vitriol against Ma, which has suddenly increased
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Neither Alibaba, the giant e-commerce company Ma co-founded, nor his charitable foundation immediately responded to requests for comment Friday But you've got to play by our rules,' " says Andrew Polk, co-founder and head of economic research at Trivium China, a Beijing-based consulting firm

But it's also not unlike Beijing to dole out severe punishment for prominent Chinese figures who clash with the interests of the Communist Party.

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