Alibaba founder Jack Ma, once the richest man in China before he was ruined and exiled for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party, paid a visit to his company’s main campus in Hangzhou on Friday.
Oil prices slip as investors digest the latest downbeat economic news from China, with extended slumps in retail and real estate.
Soon after former president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, Chinese consumers went wild for T-shirts bearing the now-iconic photo of a bloodied Trump rising up from the stage and raising his fist beneath an American flag.
T-shirts and other merchandise featuring images of former President Donald Trump in the moments immediately after surviving an assassination attempt began appearing on Chinese e-commerce sites mere hours after the historic event, multiple outlets documented.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert movie should inspire Chinese musicians to produce similar content at a higher quality, the state-run Chinese outlet Global Times urged on Wednesday, effusively praising the leftist singer’s “unique appeal” and “unquestionable influence.”
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday that a growing number of “private” Chinese companies are interested in buying censorship artificial intelligence (AI) from the state-run People’s Daily.
Data produced by British-American financial analysis firm Refinitv on Wednesday found China’s leading tech companies lost about $1.1 trillion in market value during the Chinese Communist Party’s two-year regulatory crackdown on the industry.
China’s desperation to keep nervous international investors from giving up on its flagging economy prompted the regime to turn to its old adversary Jack Ma on Tuesday.
Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi, whose team is the reigning FIFA World Cup champion, played an exhibition match alongside his team in Beijing, China, on Friday – genocidal dictator Xi Jinping’s 70th birthday.
Jack Ma, the tech billionaire who co-founded Alibaba and was once considered the richest man in China, accepted a post at Tokyo College on Monday — effectively retiring to Japan only a few months after his ballyhooed return to China at the urging of the government that ruined and exiled him for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Tuesday published draft regulations that would require artificially intelligent (A.I.) chat systems to “reflect the core values of socialism” and regurgitate Communist Party propaganda.
China’s Alibaba Group announced on Tuesday that it will split up into six different units, a dramatic restructuring for the tech giant undertaken shortly after founder Jack Ma returned to China from a year of overseas exile.
Jack Ma, the once-flamboyant billionaire founder of tech giant Alibaba, re-appeared in China last week after spending over a year in exile.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is entering into an agreement with fintech company Ant Group, a Chinese global tech provider, to help promote the league to fans in China.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, once a flamboyant celebrity and the richest man in China until he criticized Chinese Communist Party economic policies, left his low-profile refuge in Japan this week to visit Thailand and learn about farming, fishing, and kickboxing. Chinese state media hinted over the weekend that Ma is being forced out of Alibaba’s parent company, the Ant Group, so he will have plenty of time to work on his hobbies.
The Financial Times revealed on Wednesday that Jack Ma, the formerly flamboyant billionaire founder of Internet giant Alibaba, has been living in apparently self-imposed exile in Japan for at least the past six months.
University of Maryland (UMD) professor Dinesh Manocha, a decorated scholar in AI and robotics, created machine-learning software “useful for surveillance” that can read people’s personalities and “predict their behavior” for Chinese tech giant Alibaba.
Top Chinese social media influencer Li Jiaqi, known as the “Lipstick King” because he once managed to sell 15,000 units of lipstick in five minutes flat during a livestream performance, was evidently “disappeared” by the tyrannical Chinese government on Friday after he pointed his webcam at a cake that looked like a tank, one day before the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
China’s Alibaba is developing an “individual carbon footprint tracker”, the firm’s president said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Chinese state media announced on Tuesday that a man “surnamed Ma” was arrested on suspicion of “colluding with outside forces” to “subvert the State and split the country.” Stock prices tumbled as investors worried the suspect could be Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who was China’s richest man until he dared to challenge Chinese Communist policies.
Benedict Cumberbatch made a bizarre appearance to shill for China’s Alibaba on “Singles’ Day,” China’s biggest shopping day of the year. |
China’s state-run Global Times posted a glum report on Wednesday about China’s big “Double 11 shopping festival,” which “arrived in a low-profile and conservative manner” without “glamorous galas or eye-popping promotions” this year.
The latest model of Chinese car manufacturer SAIC’s Roewe RX5 PLUS SUV will come equipped with an application that indoctrinates passengers in “Xi Jinping Thought,” Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.
Chinese spies could be able to access “sensitive” information in Belgium through investments made into the Liège Airport by the Jack Ma-owned e-commerce giant Alibaba, the country’s justice minister admitted this week.
Chinese regulators hit e-commerce giant Alibaba with a staggering $2.78 billion fine for alleged antitrust violations Saturday, seizing about four percent of the company’s annual revenue with the largest corporate penalty the Chinese government has ever assessed.
China’s latest exercise of “sharp power” – using economic leverage to impose its political agenda on the free world – targets H&M, a Swedish fashion company. The clothing company was surprised to find itself threatened with boycotts and banned by major Chinese e-commerce platforms Wednesday over months-old social media posts expressing concern about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor in Xinjiang province.
An organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Friday recommended punishing companies using the “996” labor policy commonly associated with billionaire Jack Ma, who fell out of favor with the CCP last fall.
A Chinese retailer’s promotion of a Buddha statue crafted in the likeness of former U.S. President Donald Trump has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms, the Chinese state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) annual legislative meeting this weekend will take action against the “unregulated expansion of capital,” according to Premier Li Kequiang, signaling another regulatory beating to teach outspoken tech billionaires who is truly in charge of the Chinese economy.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released the final version of its new antitrust rules on Sunday, evidently concluding a debate within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over how China’s high-flying technology titans should be reined in. The final draft of the rules places heavy new restrictions on firms like Alibaba, but the rules are not as stifling as they could have been.
Voice of America News (VOA) reported Monday that a theory about the curious disappearance of Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is growing in credibility among foreign observers: the true goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pressuring Ma into handing over the vast trove of consumer credit data accumulated by his Alibaba e-commerce company and its titanic financial services offshoot, the Ant Group.
Billionaire Jack Ma, once hailed as China’s richest man, reappeared in public Wednesday for the first time since he criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at an event in Shanghai on October 24.
A few days after international media noticed that not only did Chinese tech tycoon Jack Ma lose much of his corporate empire and $12 billion of his net worth after criticizing the Communist Party in late October, but he also appears to have vanished from the face of the Earth, Hong Kong’s Asia Times Financial (ATF) reported Chinese state media are claiming Ma has “embraced supervision,” while Beijing’s army of Internet trolls denounces him as a greedy traitor.
Ma is laying low in an attempt to convince China’s government that he is not a threat.
Foreign media outlets began noticing over the weekend that Alibaba tycoon Jack Ma, formerly China’s richest man, has not made any public statements about Chinese regulators dismantling his vast corporate empire.
The Chinese government on Monday ordered billionaire Jack Ma to break up his financial services empire, reducing his Ant Group down to its “origins” as a payment services provider.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), its top market regulation agency, announced the launch of an antitrust probe into tech giant Alibaba on Thursday. Outside observers saw the investigation as another element of the Communist elite nervously attempting to curtail the power of China’s richest man, Alibaba owner Jack Ma.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the Chinese company that runs the major online marketplace of the same name, admitted on Thursday that it had developed software that identifies individuals as members of China’s ethnic Uyghur minority solely using images of their faces.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday quoted Chinese officials who said dictator Xi Jinping personally intervened to block the $37 billion IPO for Ant Group, the online finance company established by China’s richest man, Jack Ma.
Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is living proof of the maxim there is “money in misery.” The internet entrepreneur has watched as his status as China’s richest tycoon soared in 2020 on the back of demand for online shopping and services during the coronavirus pandemic.
