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Partner of choice. Chinese business magnet and billionaire Jack Ma is what Marxists would call a contradiction.

He's come from nowhere and he's really come to epitomise the capitalist

face of Communist China. But then he disappeared. Popping up weeks later on a short video his location still undisclosed.

So if Jack Mar is deemed to have risked that system, it would be not a big step to portray him as having sort of betrayed them.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm David Aronovich.

Today, the re-education of Jack Mar.

So we don't know where Jack Mar. We know that he was called in by the regulators on November the 2nd

with the senior executives from Alibaba to answer questions. The famously

outspoken 56 year old making headlines in October after delivering a speech

critical of the Chinese government accusing financial regulators of

suffocating innovation and likening its banks to behaving like pawn shops.

That was the last time he was heard of until he turned up in a video call on the 20th of January.

Nearly three months later, it was a short address just 50 seconds.

He was addressing a philanthropic organization, a rural teachers initiative organized by his own

Charitable Foundation. He didn't say very much apart from the fact he was sorry not to be there in person but was indicating that was because of the coronavirus

He was looking into the camera look quite relaxed wearing a pullover with a sort of modern style watercolor painting behind him.

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