This is good https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843617 thank you dang Maybe Ma was just trying to stay out o

This is good https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843617 thank you dang Maybe Ma was just trying to stay out of the limelight[0] until the investigation of Ant Financial settled down a bit. He also owns SCMP[1], which has a mix of supportive and critical articles on the central government. Assuming he wanted to throw some pressure, in the mild form of (probably mostly disregarded) external censure back on the investigation, he may have been passive aggressively refusing to show his face. Perhaps to sow suspicion he'd been mysteriously detained in order to draw (Western) media scrutiny, and the "inevitable" torrent of China-critical speculation that invites. Of course, it could also be an Elon Musk-style stock manipulation play, but I think he's more motivated by the passions than pure financials. Speculation is fun, but it's possible this is apophenia. [0]no pun intended, he does like to dress up in camp drag and sing, if you don't believe, search for the videos, it's pretty funny for an (ex) CEO to do this [1]this article doesn't have much more than the Reuters link, but does have a couple of videos https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3118454/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-delivers-video-speech-chinas-rural-teachers https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3118454/alibaba-f...