{"id":71372,"date":"2025-04-29T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/29\/how-china-apparently-involved-jack-ma-in-push-to-prosecute-out-of-favour-official"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:00:16","slug":"alibaba-co-founder-jack-ma-implicated-in-intimidation-campaign-by-chinese-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71372","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma implicated in intimidation campaign by Chinese regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire appears to have been asked to pressure friend to return to China to help pursue out-of-favour official<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba, in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in the purge of a top official, documents seen by the Guardian suggest.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman, who can be named only as \u201cH\u201d for fear of reprisals against his family still in China, faced a series of threats from the Chinese state, in an attempt to get him to return home from France, where he was living. They included a barrage of phone calls, the arrest of his sister, and the issuing of a red notice, an international alert, through Interpol.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/29\/how-china-apparently-involved-jack-ma-in-push-to-prosecute-out-of-favour-official\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire appears to have been asked to pressure friend to return to China to help pursue out-of-favour officialThe Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba, in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[808,41,50,526,1750,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alibaba","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-france","category-jack-ma","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71372\/revisions\/71373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}