He was gone a short while, but reappeared not talking big and free anymore. 

TNStacker

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/10/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-re-emerges-with-praise-of-transformations.html

I remember reading that he might have been imprisoned for a while in china. 
After that, China had him do a public appearance to show he wasnt dead. 
He was so thin. 
Then sometime after that he reappeared in Japan. 

Satosora

For a while I thought he was permanently disappeared! 

siggy47

news

Remembering Tiananmen 35 Years Later

If I remember correctly, he had to give away his company, and then he left China in a hurry. 
Ended up in Japan teaching for a while. 
