A week before Ant was set to go public, Ma made incendiary comments that didn’t go down well with the president or government officials.
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Home BUSINESS China’s Xi Jinping personally halted Ant’s record-breaking $37 billion IPO after boss Jack Ma snubbed government leaders, report says
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