"The idea that Jack has this enormous amount of power, I think that's not quite right," Tsai said. "He is just like you and me, he's a normal individual."
Alibaba was also fined $2.8 billion in April for anti-competitive business practices.
"If the increase in yields is the consequence of the normalisation of the economy, it's something that is going to part of the broader framework. If there's a recovery going on, if inflation starts to go up and normalise economic activity, then nominal yields will have to go up.
The European Commission said in response to the move that it "regrets that the United States has chosen to add further EU products to its retaliation list in the WTO Airbus case on aircraft subsidies."
Top US officials - including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - have blamed Russia for the espionage operation, although some officials and experts have told Reuters it is too soon to know for sure who is behind the breach.