Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma has been summoned to a court in India amid allegations the retailer censored content seen as unfavourable to China.
China’s richest man has been thrown into the increasingly hostile spat between India and China which saw the former ban 57 Chinese apps last month over security concerns.
Ma, who stepped down as chief executive of Alibaba last September, has been summoned to an Indian court over allegations a staff member was wrongly dismissed for criticising what he called fake news and censorship on Alibaba’s numerous apps.