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Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by yorwba »

runawaybottle wrote: post #11

Would love to get a transcript of exactly what he said at a forum a few months ago, from Quartz: Speaking at a forum attended by some of China’s most powerful figures in politics and finance, Ma heavily criticized the “pawnshop mentality” of Chinese banks, and accused global authorities’ old-school financial regulation of slowing down innovation. The criticism eventually reached Chinese president Xi Jinping, who was…

> Would love to get a transcript of exactly what he said at a forum a few months ago

Transcript: https://sfl.global/news_post/mayunshanghaiwaitanjinronglunta...

Translation: https://interconnected.blog/jack-ma-bund-finance-summit-spee...

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by boomboomsubban »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #16
boomboomsubban wrote: post #12

Why is "Ma missed a TV recording in November" suddenly a story? China isn't the only one who might have wanted him to pull out, "owner involved in political controversy" could cause both Ali Baba and Ma to not want to appear om such a show, even if they were on the correct side. Has he missed anything else?

He was a very public figure.

Yet he only had one scheduled appearance over the past two months, which nobody seemed to notice he cancelled until today.

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by villgax »

sasaf5 wrote: post #17
zed88 wrote: post #15

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you", it certainly sounds true in China. And after watching that interview with Elon, he certainly doesn't seem that bright.

To be fair with Ma, he doesn't seem to have the level of English required to have a smart conversation with a native speaker. I couldn't conclude much from that interview regarding his intellect.

It's not about what his level of English speaking skills is or the state of his grammar, but rather about what exactly he was trying to convey in the Musk interview, seemed very much like a simpleton.

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by mensetmanusman »

It’s hard for me to fathom the mind of an authoritarian.

Imagine being so mad at a speech you want to imprison someone. Isn’t this a sign of mental illness?

I denigrate myself all the time with humor. This is my strategy to keeping an open mind on self improvement.

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by mensetmanusman »

blackrock wrote: post #21
sasaf5 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair with Ma, he doesn't seem to have the level of English required to have a smart conversation with a native speaker. I couldn't conclude much from that interview regarding his intellect.

Perhaps the white guy should debate with Jack Ma in Chinese? Ever thought about that?

I wish we hadn’t left behind latin as an international language that everyone has to learn as a second language (to keep things equal).

Fairly or not, English is the international language of science, technology, and culture.

There are some major benefits of learning a second language, so I wouldn’t say it’s completely ‘fair’ to English speakers who have no incentive at all to learn a second language and receive the health benefits it offers.

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by daemin »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #34

It’s hard for me to fathom the mind of an authoritarian. Imagine being so mad at a speech you want to imprison someone. Isn’t this a sign of mental illness? I denigrate myself all the time with humor. This is my strategy to keeping an open mind on self improvement.

It's the same sort of person that gets offended by being compared to a children's cartoon and therefore has it and any mention of it banned from the entire country. So because this "Emperor" has seemingly lost "face" therefore the whole country must suffer.

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by baybal2 »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #34

It’s hard for me to fathom the mind of an authoritarian. Imagine being so mad at a speech you want to imprison someone. Isn’t this a sign of mental illness? I denigrate myself all the time with humor. This is my strategy to keeping an open mind on self improvement.

If you only knew some Russian.

There is a drama now happening on Youtube with former presitator of Kazakhstan, where his past subordinates now surface and dump their personal accounts of him.

As could've been imagined, none are positive of his personal ability. But the biggest insecurity of such people is to appear to be useless.

He very much understands that he surrounded himself with sharks, and able lieutenants while being on the borderline of mental development scale himself.

In many dumped secret recordings of him by one former official, he often explodes with "You would've been nobody without me!!!" whenever challenged with even an innuendo of "I could've done it without you."

What holds such people firmly in their chairs of power, is not their ability, but such shark pool of capable executors whose loyalty is conditional

Re: Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

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Post by manuel4sk »

randycupertino wrote: post #13
gogopuppygogo wrote: post #7

He’s being re-educated. China has a wonderful track record on this process. Maybe he’ll be forced to labor at an Apple supplier like his Muslim friends as part of this process.

A similar thing happened to one of my favorite actresses, Fan Bingbing. Here is a good article with background: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/the-untold-stor...

the article seems intended to white wash her, just saying
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