News Analysis Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, recently made public appearances in Hong Kong, Spain, and the Netherlands. Media reports of his tour in Europe seem to debunk rumors of the Chinese billionaire being involved in graft investigations. Ma’s recent tour of agricultural research institutions in the Netherlands, as reported by his subsidiary media, was interpreted as a post-retirement hobby. However, experts believe it could be seen as a life boat in China’s unique political situation. Cost of Ma’s Freedom Yuan Hongbing, the former head of the law school at Beijing University and renowned dissident in exile, told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times on Oct. 28 that insiders told him that the regime has completely defeated Jack Ma. The regime has kept all of his relatives in China and Hong Kong like hostages. A Chinese deputy director to the Hong Kong national security committee was appointed to directly control …