HONG KONG: This was supposed to be Jack Ma’s finest hour: a year ago to the day, his Ant Group was meant to go public in a $37 billion blaze of glory. Instead Beijing reined in his empire, abruptly clipping the wings of corporate China’s biggest star. Now, to the cautious cheer of investors, the billionaire Alibaba e-commerce tycoon is taking his first tentative steps back on to the global stage with a low-key trip to Europe where he’s cultivating https://www.reuters.com/business/billionaire-alibaba-founder-jack-ma-touring-dutch-research-institutes-scmp-2021-10-27 hobbies like horticulture. It’s a far cry from the height of Ma’s statesman-like powers in 2017 when he travelled...