Friday, January 15, 2021

Not seen 3

 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

Misfortune has come down on the head of Jack Ma since he criticized the Chinese Communist Party last October before a global audience. The financial arm of his company was ordered to "re-organize," state media are calling him a vampire who stole billions from the poor, and he himself is now "embracing supervision" at an undisclosed location.

To disable this sort of person is what motivated the CCP to legalize arbitrary and secret detentions in 2013. 

Forbes reported in 2016 that China's billionaires run the risk of disappearing:

  • Friends couldn't find Ren Zhiqiang for a while, his assets were taken, now he is doing 18 years of prison for bribery. Did he do it? 
  • Xiao Jianhua was snatched from Hong Kong, and the Chinese government has taken over a half dozen companies connected to his firm.
Princeton University professor says that “[E]specially in the last few years, the CCP has made a regular practice of arresting such people and stripping them of their assets."

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