Alibaba Tech VP Mocks China's Covid Policies; Clarifies Not Resigning - Alibaba Gr Holding (NYSE:BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's BABA VP of technology, Jia Yangqing, clarified that he did not resign from the company and had traveled from Shanghai to the U.S. to see a doctor, Global Times reports.
Jia traveled from Shanghai to California, the U.S., in the middle of the night because of the situation in Shanghai.
Jia criticized Shanghai's epidemic prevention policies describing how he used his connections to get a pass to fly to the U.S. overnight.
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Jia's mockery of Shanghai's epidemic prevention policies and use of connections to fly to the U.S. drew a massive backlash from netizens. It became one of the top trending topics on China's Twitter Inc TWTR-like social media, Weibo Corp WB Sina Weibo.
Yangqing is the former Facebook rebranded as Meta Platforms Inc FB artificial intelligence scientist and joined Alibaba in 2019.
Price Action: BABA shares traded lower by 4.06% at $95.97 on the last check Thursday.