“Where is the disappeared Ma-win?”
This question is followed by Ma Yun, the founder of the Alibaba Group, China’s largest e-commerce company, and former chairman of the “wealth”. He hasn’t appeared in public for more than two months, and his whereabouts have become obscure.
Missing or lowering
On the 4th, Yahoo Finance, the US economic media, reported an article titled “A Chinese billionaire Ma Yun suspects disappearing.” “Mawin did not appear in the final episode of the TV show’African Corporate Heroes’,” he said. Afterwards, CNBC reported through a source on the 5th, “Since Ma Yun’s remarks were guilty of rebellion by the Chinese authorities, they are refraining from activities to avoid further conflict.” It means that they are quietly and self-sufficient in order to avoid further anger.
It all started with a word. Ma Yun attended the Shanghai Bund Financial Summit on October 24 and said, “The Chinese government is suppressing innovation. Just as you can’t manage airports by managing train stations, you can manage the future in the same way as in the past. There is no” he said. The problem is that at the time of this remark, the current regime’s real powers, such as Vice President Wang Chi-san, the most aide to State President Xi Jinping, were sitting in the auditorium. Foreign media say this case is Xi Jinping I think it might have made the commentator angry.
Since then, the listing of Ant Group, a financial subsidiary of Alibaba, has ceased, and an antitrust investigation into Alibaba has also begun. Recently, there have been observations that Chinese authorities are trying to share Ant Group’s customer credit information. In this all-round pressure surrounding Ma Yun, his idealism spread rapidly.
When released after detention or investigation, reflection pattern repeats
It is not the first time that a celebrity disappears overnight in the Xi Jinping regime.
Famous actress Fan Bing-bing (范氷氷) disappeared for over 100 days and returned. After being accused of tax evasion and being’missing’ since early June 2018, he released an apology upon returning on October 3 of the same year. At the time, the apology included remarks that pledged loyalty to the state along with reflection, such as “I feel so embarrassed about what I did” and “I used to know the relationship between the interests of the state or the interests of society and my interests.” Followed. The New Yorker, an American weekly magazine, said, “Fan Bingbing’s apology for tax evasion is a speech and Panbaki of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).” It is reminiscent of self-criticism that theists had to write.”
Dissident current affairs critic Cheon Je-ren (陳杰人) went missing after exposing local government corruption in 2018, and soon appeared on Chinese state-run CCTV and confessed his “corruption”. The same process went through the case where former governor Meng Hongwei, who was the incumbent head of Interpol (International Criminal Police Agency), disappeared for more than ten days. Former President Meng, who fled to France in 2019, “If France had not protected me, I would have been killed earlier”Said.
In addition to the cases that became an issue because they were exposed to the outside, there are more cases of internal disappearances, including human rights lawyers, publishers and journalists, and the total number of famous companies. On July 9, 2015, attorney Wang Quan-Chang disappeared in the ‘709 Incident’ in which 250 human rights lawyers and activists were arrested, and Xiao Jian-hua, chairman of Ming Tian group, who disappeared in Hong Kong in January 2017, is still in trouble. In one state.
Experts interpret the Ma Yun incident in conjunction with Xi Jinping’s movement to consolidate power and strengthen nationalism. Lee Hee-ok, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University’s Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, said, “This is what happened (this incident) occurred when the former chairman Ma Winn’s plans to expand the business area and improve productivity through market autonomy contradict the direction of the national policy being promoted by the Chinese government.”
Professor Nam-joo Lee of Sungkonghoe University “Intellectuals in China rebelled, but public opinion agreeing to President Xi Jinping’s strong control amid the US-China conflict is also strengthening,” he said. “As Xi laid the foundation for long-term power, this stance will continue for a long time.”Analyzed.
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