By one of several possible originators, this information is being carefully curated for our consumption. Ma could be long dead and there’s a need to make him “live on a little longer;” he may be in Vegas playing blue whale; Japan may have agreed to help obfuscate a vacation to Cancun with the fam; he’s still getting premium re-education at Camp Hunny; nobody knows where he is but he’s given Japan et al carte blanche to troll his minders… Statecraft is fun for the whole family.