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Alibaba's Ma calls US-China trade war "most stupid thing in this world"

By Adam Jourdan

Nov 6 2018 6:54AM

"Don't worry about technology".

Alibaba's Ma calls US-China trade war "most stupid thing in this world"

The US-China trade war is the "most stupid thing in this world," Jack Ma, the chief of Asia's most valuable public company, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said on Monday. The two countries have set tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each other’s goods and US President Donald Trump ...

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