Jack Ma flees tech crackdown to Tokyo in twilight of neoliberalism

Alibaba founder built wealth under Jiang Zemin's open policy

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Alibaba founder Jack Ma has apparently been living in Tokyo for almost six months. © Reuters

TETSUSHI TAKAHASHI, Editor, Economic News Group

TOKYO -- Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group, appears to be keeping a low profile.

"He looked a little tired," said a business person who met Ma in Tokyo recently.

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