 Among the motives of the Alibaba acquisition was to make media coverage of China "fair and accurate" and not in the optic of Western news outlets.Alibaba said that the newspaper's editorial independence would be upheld.Joseph Tsai, executive vice-chairman of Alibaba Group, said that the fear that Alibaba's ownership would compromise editorial independence "reflects a bias of its own, as if to say newspaper owners must espouse certain views, while those that hold opposing views are 'unfit'.