Last week, Jack Ma Foundation's rural teacher project | Calling for reform in the country's regulatory system, Jack Ma blamed it for stifling business innovation and likened China's global banking regulations to an "old people's club |
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So what do you think about Jack Ma and his Entrepreneurial journey so for with Alibaba? AFP: STR So far, China's financial regulators have given few details about the antitrust investigation against Alibaba | He was well aware of an approaching avalanche of rules when he infamously called out "pawn shop" Chinese lenders, regulators who don't understand the internet, and the "old men" of the global banking community during the speech in Shanghai |
In it, he acknowledged the need to tighten supervision and beseeched regulators with the argument that Alibaba wasn't "too big to fail.
3His plane was in the Chinese capital in late January as Ant negotiated a restructuring plan with regulators after being forced to scrap its IPO, according to the outlet | China has a track record of not revealing information on arrests of big personalities, so 'embracing supervision' could well mean jail |
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Once hailed as drivers of economic prosperity and symbols of the country's technological prowess, the empires built by Ma, Tencent Holdings Ltd | Within days, regulators , but not before to a meeting |
For a period, it seemed he'd found the right balance when it came to picking battles with watchdogs.
26The government has encouraged the growth of its home-grown tech giants, including Alibaba, Ant Group, Tencent and Baidu, while shutting out their big American rivals | He decided it was time for China and its people to get on the Internet |
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This resulted in him falling to third place on the list of China's richest people | Computers were pretty rare in China then, given the high costs associated with them and Internet or E-mails were non-existent |
Neither Alibaba, the giant e-commerce company Ma co-founded, nor his charitable foundation immediately responded to requests for comment Friday.
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