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Alibaba’s Jack Ma says U.S.-China trade deficit “not a problem”

By Reuters
11 April 2018   |   4:57 am
Alibaba founder Jack Ma said on Monday (April 9) that he believes there is no impending "problem" of trade deficit between the U.S. and China.

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