JD.com no longer sure about plans to open European office

JD.com is apparently making a U-turn in its plans to expand to the European market. Six months after Founder and CEO Richard Liu told German newspaper Handelsblatt that the company was soon to open an office in the country, a spokesperson for the Chinese e-commerce giant told the same publication that, actually, a decision hasn’t been made yet in that regard. “As far as I know, there will be no office in Germany in the first half of 2019”, said the spokesperson, adding that new decisions will only be made in the beginning of February.