Although i think it will reflect poorly on CCP to secretly make Jack go missing, who is actually a world famous personality at this point. One should also remember that anything is possible in a totalitarian regime.

Making a man like Jack Ma disappear and possibly dead sends a message that no matter how rich and famous you are, don't fuck with the CCP. That's how it will reflect. Poorly, and fearsomely.

Will it though?

You live in the time where there's massive outrage for one week, but the next week that's the subject of the past that lost hype and momentum so it's forgotten.

I think the CCP knows this, hell even political leaders of the free world know this - no one resigns due to scandals anymore. They just sit tight, don't acknowledge it, and it blows over.

That is true, but Jack isnt any ordinary Billionaire, this would affect Chinese businesses.

Didn't stop Putin from stomping Khodorkovsky. Who worries or thinks about him (khodorkovsky) now? Meanwhile Putin is still there, more powerful than ever.

I genuinely have no idea how these articles are making this claim. They say that "reports surfaced" making the claim, but the only source they show making any claim is the Financial Times saying he did not attend a TV show taping in November.

Are people that normally see him also reporting him missing? Or other events he had to cancel lately?

He also stopped posting on social media and has yet to surface to reject claims that he's missing.

His Twitter account was created in March and he follows zero people. I'd guess it was created as PR for the IPO, and possibly controlled by others.