{"id":29797,"date":"2021-03-16T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/china-tells-alibaba-to-divest-media-assets-to-curb-influence-report"},"modified":"2021-03-16T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:56:18","slug":"china-tells-alibaba-to-divest-media-assets-to-curb-influence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29797","title":{"rendered":"China tells Alibaba to divest media assets to curb influence \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing fears ecommerce giant has too much sway over public opinion through stakes in platforms such as Twitter-like Weibo, Wall Street Journal says<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has reportedly told the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba to divest its assets in the media sector out of concern over the company\u2019s growing public influence.<\/p>\n<p>Its founder, Jack Ma, the ebullient and unconventional billionaire who officially retired from Alibaba in 2019 but remains a large shareholder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/dec\/24\/china-targets-alibaba-with-anti-monopoly-investigation\">has been in authorities\u2019 crosshairs in recent months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/china-tells-alibaba-to-divest-media-assets-to-curb-influence-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing fears ecommerce giant has too much sway over public opinion through stakes in platforms such as Twitter-like Weibo, Wall Street Journal saysBeijing has reportedly told the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba to divest its assets in the medi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[808,41,6,50,1750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alibaba","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-jack-ma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29820,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797\/revisions\/29820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}