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So the Manus founders transferred the company to Singapore and sold their business to Meta for $2b. They thought they were being clever for circumventing China's tech export controls, but you don't fuck with the CCP like that. You WILL be made an example of, so others don't get tempted to betray the motherland. So what's gonna happen? China won't jail them, because they don't want to look evil. Instead, they gonna freeze the founders' assets in China and give them a travel ban while the "probe" is ongoing. The "probe" will likely be deliberately prolonged to inflict psychological damage, create uncertainty for potential copycats, and make the public forget about this case. And once the topic is out of the public's minds, CCP gonna strike hard with a financial penalty that wipes out most of their gains, and then soft blacklist them in China. Afterwards, the best option for them would be to move into soft-exile. They'll still be quite rich, but they'll wish they had never tried what they tried.
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