Sep 19, 2018 - World

Alibaba bails on pledge to create one million U.S. jobs

Jack Ma giving a talk.

Alibaba's Jack Ma. Photo by Wang He/Getty Images.

Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma says his company no longer plans to help the US economy add one million jobs, which is something he had promised President Trump during a meeting in early 2017.

The bottom line: Ma tells Xinhua News Agency that the Chinese Internet giant's commitment was based on friendly U.S.-Chinese relations, but that subsequent trade tensions "destroyed the original premise."

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