Alibaba and ApplePay - an interesting combination, but albeit an impossible one.

ApplePay either works with NFC (i.e. pay at Point of Sale) or built into mobile apps. What many did not grasp is that ApplePay can not work with web based eCommerce sites. You can not tap your phone on the browser or your monitor to pay.

Apple will need an additional technology like Sekur.me to be able to do web based online commerce payments. ApplePay needs to know who to pay and how much to pay and can only extract this information from a browser using a technology like Sekur.me. ApplePay can not be integrated into an HTML based checkout page.