Jack Ma’s woes began when he spoke to Trump
 

In the middle of the trade war... he might have gotten ahead of himself

Apparently the reason why Jack Ma’s star fell to the extend that it did, was because he thought he could go to the US and talk to Donald Trump.

Ma disappeared for a while, and his company seems to have been punished by Beijing for some time now and analysts have been scratching their head for a reason.

Reuters is convinced that the reason is to do with Ma’s meeting with Trump in 2017 when he travelled to New York to meet President-elect Donald Trump for one-on-one talks in Trump Tower days before inauguration and promised to create a million American jobs.

Beijing was apparently furious and Alibaba's government relations team was subsequently told by Chinese officials that Beijing was unhappy about Ma meeting Trump without its prior approval.

China had a reason it did not want Ma talking to Trump. There were tensions between the two countries after Trump slammed China during his election campaign, blaming it for the loss of American jobs.

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