On Sunday, White House trade adviser Navarro told the media that Xi Jinping, the Communist Party’s general secretary, has been consolidating his personal power in recent years and that the crackdown on Jack Ma is intended to “make an example of him.
Ma has been out of the public eye for more than two months since October 2020, and his whereabouts have been a recent focus of overseas media attention.
In an interview with the New York Post on Sunday, Jan. 10, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro analyzed Jack Ma’s Alibaba, which, like the story of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” was built on stolen goods and the theft of the U.S. eBay business model.
He (Ma) stole all our e-commerce technology,” Navarro said.
Navarro said that while Ma is very shrewd, he has failed to notice one obvious thing, which is that Xi has been consolidating his personal power for the past four or five years.
According to Navarro, there is a Chinese idiom called “kill the chicken to make an example of the monkey”, and Xi Jinping is dealing with Ma to make Chinese tycoons like him, who have made a lot of money, not to fall in love with the West and forget where they came from, but to keep their mouths shut and make money.
As for Ma’s current whereabouts, the New York Post reports, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Ma’s “disappearance” in China is likely to be temporary, and that Internet rumors that Ma has fled to Singapore are not true, and that Ma is now likely to be asked to keep a low profile, perhaps at home or in a “very comfortable place,” reading “Marxist dogma” with Chinese Communist Party officials, a process known as “under review.
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