Closer Look: Alibaba Meets with Regulator, but Its Problems Remain

(Beijing) – A meeting between Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma and the head of China's commerce regulator on January 30 may have helped calm a rare tussle between the leading e-commerce company and a powerful government agency.

However, it could do little to contain the fall-out from the high-profile feud as neither party addressed the crucial questions: whether counterfeiting is as grave as regulators claim and how they are going to address the rampant sale of fake goods online.