Well to be fair, he got prominent and created an illegal peer-to-peer lending business to enrich himself on the despair of lower-income people - in a country that has heavy financial regulation in place to prevent exactly these kinds of developments (same as MLM schemes etc.).

Ah... Jack Ma, My favorite example on why nobody should try to be a communist propagandist.

The man traveled to the US back in 2017 and publicly criticized how US utilized their tax incomes etc see [Link 1], then just few years later he lost half of his wealth for criticizing Xi Jinpin [Link 2].

So, apparently be a communist lapdog did very little in helping him gain political shield.

[Link 1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-...

[Link 2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/12/business/china-jack-ma-we...