https://americanconsequences.com/how-to-invest-in-a-dangerous-world/
In November 2020, Jack Ma vanished.

At the time, Ma was China’s megastar billionaire. The founder of Alibaba – widely known as the “Amazon of China” – was poised to become the richest man in his country…

Ma’s newest venture, Alipay – a mobile-payment company under the Ant Group affiliate – had promised to revolutionize the banking system in China.

On the eve of the initial public offering (“IPO”) launch, Ma gave a fiery speech slamming the Chinese financial system for its “pawn-shop mentality.”

Beijing was not pleased.

Ma was hauled off for questioning and Ant Group’s $35 billion IPO was scratched.

Jack Ma then disappeared for three months…

Some feared that he had been killed… Others thought Ma had been sent to a Chinese “brainwashing” camp. Some “optimistically” speculated that he was under house arrest.

Although we may never know exactly what happened to Ma during that time, here’s what we do know: Investors lost billions.

Ma’s mistake was calling out China’s authoritarian regime…

But, before that, investors made the equally grave mistake of putting money into an emerging market that we fundamentally do not trust.

In countries like China, and as we’ve now seen in Russia, we simply can’t predict how an autocratic government will act.

That unpredictability, coupled with market volatility and visible human rights abuses, is making U.S. investors rethink how they allocate capital around the world…

Just as countries and global businesses will need to choose their economic partnerships and strategies more carefully… so, too, will individual investors. All parties will need to exercise caution when placing any international bets.

A Brave New World

“I sold my shares of Alibaba as soon as Jack Ma disappeared,” one investor told me. “[That’s when] it hit me,” she said, “What am I doing investing in a company [and country] I fundamentally don’t trust?”

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