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Jack Ma
Jack Ma is the lead founder of Alibaba and has been the group's executive chairman, a role he will step down from in September 2019. He is also the founder of the Zhejiang-based Jack Ma Foundation. He currently serves on the board of SoftBank Corp. He is also a member of the foundation board of the World Economic Forum, chairman of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club. Alibaba owns, among other organisations, the South China Morning Post.
‘If not for you, I wonder if there would have been an Alibaba,’ Ma wrote, while also touching on the virtues of being a xia, a chivalrous hero
With Chinese consumers already a driving force of global trade, America – once a bastion of free and open markets – will miss out on lucrative opportunities by adopting a protectionist stance.
