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 |
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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.
The story of the life of a man who has impacted the entire economy and internet industry of China almost single-handedly | He writes articles, novels and poems; spends most of his time reading everything he could get his hands on |
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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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