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In 2020, Alibaba founder and billionaire Jack Ma disappeared without a trace – he secretly traveled to these countries
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He was once one of the richest and most successful Chinese entrepreneurs: Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba.
Hardly anyone represented the rise of the Chinese tech industry as much as the former English teacher from Hangzhou. In October 2020, however, he had to go into hiding because he had made a speech harshly criticizing Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. He had already resigned as chairman of the company in 2019 on his 55th birthday.
As the "Financial Times" now reports, Jack Ma has started a new life outside of China: He has been living in Japan's capital Tokyo for a good six months.
Science tour of Holland
It has also now been revealed that while he was missing he has traveled quite a bit. For example, in October 2021 and 2022 he visited various research institutes and universities in the Netherlands, such as Wageningen University & Research (WUR). Ma, who set up a foundation, wanted to learn more about research into how sustainable agriculture and fisheries can be designed.
Several visits to Israel
He is also said to be staying regularly in the United States and Israel. On his travels he is careful not to attract attention. It often only became known afterwards that Jack Ma had stayed in the respective countries.
In April 2018, Ma flew to Israel for the first time to receive an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. In October 2018, he attended a meeting of the Israel-China Society for Innovation Cooperation at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv and said that innovation in Israel is ubiquitous and as natural as water. In June 2022 - after Ma had no longer had any influence on the company for more than two years - Alibaba closed its development center in Israel and laid off 60 employees, according to Israeli media reports.
With the yacht in Mallorca
In October 2020, Reuters news agency reported that Jack Ma had been spotted on vacation on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The Alibaba founder was on a yacht and bought decorative items in a souvenir shop in the port of Andratx. According to "El Pais", he was traveling with Chinese business friends and his security personnel.
Why did Jack Ma disappear?
The background to Ma's criticism was the strict financial regulation for Alibaba and numerous tech companies, which critics say the party has tried to limit this influential industry and limit its influence. Ma had compared the Chinese banking system to a "pawn shop" and criticized party and state leader Xi Jinping in an unusually clear manner: "You can always get rich in China: You just mustn't disturb the leader Xi Jinping."
It's a trend that has become apparent since Xi's rise in 2012: as soon as a company, such as Alibaba, but also the taxi app Didi, gains too much influence in the population and does not submit to the strict, nationalistic regulations of the CP , action is taken against it.
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