“I’m just saying”, Obama said, throwing Ma a suggestive look.
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“Trading is about culture, it is about passion, innovation, and creation…” Previous efforts have failed because governments and businesses have struggled to break free from fossil fuel dependency that has driven economic growth since the industrial revolution. When she said she was in need of investors to produce those lamps in bulk, POTUS pitched in there and asked Jack Ma to invest in her company and called himself “Match Maker”.
“Alibaba will be involved in building up payment channels, logistic infrastructure, and support the “small guys” (referring to micro and small businesses) to do business across countries”, he told Xinhua.
Ma said entrepreneurs should take it upon themselves to talk with other businesses in facilitating trade activities as a few trade agreements take many years before they come into force. We think no matter what country you are, whatever size the company you have, trade is a freedom, a human right.
We’ve been waiting for the results of the Doha round for so many, so many years.
Obama made the call in a speech at the APEC CEO Summit 2015 at the Philippine global Convention Centre in Metro Manila, reports Xinhua news agency. “I said one thing: If we can be successful, 80 per cent of the Chinese people can be successful because we are the people without resources, we are the people without money, we are the people without relationship and we are the people without even knowing the technology”. “Trade should not be used as a tool against the other nations”, Ma added.
“What we should do is help developing nations, help the small guys, help the young people, because if we do not help, we will have more disasters”, he said.
“No nation is immune to the consequences of a changing climate”, he said.
We have to build a world that is more transparent, a world that is more inclusive, a world that cares about others and empowers others.
At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila on Wednesday, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) CEO, Chairman and Co-founder, Jack Ma announced that it was now time to start a third world war.
Mijeno developed her idea for SALt, an acronym for Sustainable Alternative Lighting, after trekking in the mountains of Kalinga in the northern Philippines, where she saw people walk six hours every other day to buy lamp fuel.
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Mijeno urged the need for measures to address climate change, even if it means lighting a lamp using salt instead of gas. “She’s an engineer and she has to explain the physics around this thing”, Obama said.
