Neither Jack Ma Nor Raja Petra Denials Not Believable

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Raja Petra Kamaruddin was requested to retract a posting he claimed Jack Ma met Lim Guan Eng and Tony Pua in Hong Kong to explain the reason Ali Alibaba.com will not invest in Malaysia.

The reason cited was new government of Malaysia's inability to honour on its promises and agreements. RPK had retracted the posting and published AliBaba.com's letter. The original posting can be found in The Coverage here.

He may have given the earlier posting and reply posting a pilitical spin, but it is no victory for PH to shame RPK and nothing for unschooled cybertrooper to cheer. As any writer, especially with the bollocks like RPK, there will always be hits and misses.

This is not a miss yet. Despite Raja Petra's retraction, he has not gone down to apologise but twisting it towards Clare Rewcastle Brown.

An informant with confirmed media and IT sources alerted of the meeting. The Alibaba.com founder-entrepreneur Jack Ma would have denied it, but Alibaba.com's substantial shareholder and the Chinese Communist Party member could have said those words.

Although the diplomatic businessman he may have given complimentary words to Tun Dr Mahathir during his call in June last year and met him together with Lim Guan Eng.

Jack Ma was invited by Guan Eng to Penang to review their e-commerce plan. More than a week  later, Penang government was still reiterating the same invitation without any progress. Till today, no update still of Jack Ma's visit.

It is not a surprise that Guan Eng and his befuddling wunder boy, Oxfordian Tony Pua may a trip to Hong Kong. It is not a difficult task to check with kaki inside Immigration on whether they went to Hong Kong or not. 

Jack Ma came in June 2018 with intention to mend any broken ties from hurtful campaign done by Mahathir and PH. He did what any businessmen would do to 'solve common problems'. Since then, Malaysian government have continued to worsen relation with China.

China has retaliated by not buying any more palm oil from Malaysia and source it cheaper from Indonesia.

Guan Eng was the first person that China Chinese met but he acted in a condescending manner. The day Tun Daim met the Prime Minister of China, Guan Eng had MACC raided on the contrctor of ECRL, CCCC.

There were no niceties exchanges between Mahathir and Prime Minister when he visited China. In fact, the military reception for him was done indoor as though it is shameful to be seen publicly to respect the man.

Government officials will come out with their standard denial but among businessman, the talk is China is pulling everything out of Malaysia.



The Digital Free Trade Zone was something to look forward the participation of Alibaba.com and Huawei in its development. Upon being appointed Minister, Gobind Singh had to make the statement to emphasise DTFZ is not just Alibaba.com.

Jack Ma may have denied Beijing had forced him out to retire, but it could be face saving. It is not a surprise substantial shareholder of Alibaba.com may have treated Jack Ma kinder than they did to Wanda for trying to move in with Tan Sri Irwan on China government's interest in Bandar Malaysia.

Malaysian government also cancelled the China-interest Bandar Malaysia project.

Jack Ma had to deny and RPK is far in the United Kingdom. The source of the info are in Malaysia and highly reliable. That language is the China government language. What was heard is they told of Tun Daim.

Their position is we are holding on to the agreement with Najib on ECRL and even Bandar Malaysia. If the DTFZ work had not started, China owned Alibaba.com and Huawei may have been left out of their promised role and stake in DTFZ.

Mahathir prefer doing business with Japan. They offered Malaysia expensive nearly 5% Samurai bonds with foreign exchange risk and still we took it.

Jack Ma had realised he was wasting his time. He had only committed to rent only a small space in Bangsar South. Malaysian was sceptical of his frst eWTP first location to Malaysia. He did not cancel his eWTP plan in Thailand.

Like the rest of China, he too can pack up and leave Malaysia.

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