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Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by objclxt on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:19PM (#15047514)
> Well, they are trying to undercut Chinese with web payments

Alibaba are very active participants on the Payment Request Working Group. I'm not sure they can undercut themselves. You will find several very large Chinese companies taking part: https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/83744/status

Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by baybal2 on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:32PM (#15047635)
On my memory, they were very very anxious about anything with capacity to subplant zhifubao. Paypal famously had a one click payment plugin for China, and it got banned by Alibaba nearly instantaneously.

Paypal later banned Alibaba from using Paypal outside of China