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From my understanding, Jack Ma having these troubles recently because he's filing the Ant Group IPO. Everybody was talking about the stock because everybody bel
by namelosw 6y ago
From my understanding, Jack Ma having these troubles recently because he's filing the Ant Group IPO. Everybody was talking about the stock because everybody believes it would be skyrocketing. Also combined with the fact that the Ant Group is abusing rules under fintech's cover (eg: Banks need to follow regulations on the interest rate but the Ant Group along with other financial companies can get away with it, or they lure graduates to lend money they can't afford to pay back). These caused concern from the government because it has potentially huge impacts on society (most likely reap shit ton of money from people). As the government see it, if they caused such problems it's the government that has to deal with the consequence.
PS: Some information about Guo from the video. According to Vice, He was rich because he was close to high ranking officials, and fled because the Government ally he linked to was under investigation because of accepting bribes [0]. Everybody would know in China, a close relationship comes from bribing at least from those times, and bribing is a crime in most countries especially in the US. It seems to me, he callout corruption issues only because he's out of the game.
[0] https://youtu.be/LkOsgh5kcgQ?t=92 https://youtu.be/LkOsgh5kcgQ?t=92
- maeln 6y ago> Everybody would know in China, a close relationship comes from bribing at least from those times, and bribing is a crime in most countries It is a classic tactic in dictatorship: Make sure that for anybody to advance, they need to get their hands dirty (i.e bribes) so that you always have a Damocles sword over their head. It's one way to ensure obedience.
- dumb1224 6y agoHowever even in the oversea chinese community he (Guo) is poorly regarded and very dubious. He gained a lot of attention much earlier because of these callouts but later proven not accurate and not different from other controversial figures in order to gain popularity. Their motto is 爆料革命 - 'callout revolution'. Many even major chinese celebrities fall for that. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%88%86%E6%96%99%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%88%86%E6%96%99%E9%9D%A9%E5... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/business/media/steve-bannon-china.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/business/media/steve-bann...