China Alibaba

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Chinese state regulators are accusing e-commerce company Alibaba of permitting sales of counterfeit goods and the participation of unlicensed merchants in a report completed last year, but made public now. Alibaba is believed to control half of all Chinese business to consumer transactions, and denies the charges. Anthea Zhang is a professor at the Jesse Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She tells VOA's Sarah Williams her reaction to the findings regarding Alibaba: