At the time, Mr Trump hailed Jack Ma as a "great, great entrepreneur ... Chinese manufacturers and businesses are facing immense challenges from the US trade war with China.
"Jack Ma represents a sort of entrepreneurial soft power," Clark adds. "That also creates challenges though, because the government is quite jealous or nervous of non-Party actors taking that kind ...
Jack Ma, founder of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, attended the CEO lunch meeting, part of China Development Forum 2015, at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, March 21, 2015 ...