CHINESE CORPORATION ALIBABA JOINS GROUP GHOSTWRITING AMERICAN LAWS
Lee Fang, Nick Surgey at the Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/alibaba-chinese-corporation-alibaba-joins-group-ghostwriting-american-laws/
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CHINESE E-COMMERCE GIANT Alibaba has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, a private group set up for corporations and other interest groups to ghostwrite legislation sponsored by legislators in state capitols around the country.
Bill Anaya, head of government affairs for Alibaba operations in the Americas, spoke at ALEC’s States & Nation Policy Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, in December 2017, according to notes taken at the meeting that were obtained by The Intercept and Documented. The gathering brought together over 1,000 state and local lawmakers and lobbyists.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. did not respond to a request for comment, but at the conference, Anaya heralded his company’s entry into the lobbying group. “We’re so excited to be a part of ALEC,” said Anaya. “We are probably the world’s largest e-commerce company you have never heard about. We have business-to-business marketplace solutions. We have VC marketplace solutions. And we have over 500 million active buyers on our marketplaces.”
Anaya, a registered lobbyist for Alibaba, told those assembled that he was brought to the summit by ALEC staffer Cara Sullivan and state Rep. Ken Ivory, a Republican from Utah.
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