NEW YORK—When it comes to the sale of counterfeit goods on Alibaba’s e-commerce platforms, opinions could not be further apart.
“This is the cancer. It will destroy our business. We will do anything against it,” Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma said in a speech at the Economic Club of New York on June 9.
He believes Alibaba is the victim—as the people who buy counterfeit products go and complain to Alibaba, rather than to the sellers. He vowed to track down anybody who sells these counterfeit products.
This is the cancer. It will destroy our business.
, Alibaba