The Singles Day shopping festival: Not so crazy anymore after all these years
Where’s this year’s sales data? Alibaba and JD.com aren’t saying, and it seems Chinese shoppers are falling out of love with over-hyped online shopping festivals.
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Buoyed by Chinese consumers, L’Oréal defies earnings expectations
L’Oréal, the massive French beauty brand, posted record annual sales in 2021 on the strength of the Chinese cosmetics sector. The company’s future in China is bright as the country's middle class is expected to expand by over 300 million people this decade.
Talk like a Chinese shopper on Singles Day
November 11 — a.k.a., Singles Day — is China's annual consumer holiday, when billions of dollars gets spent on everything from everyday items to luxury goods.
How China’s livestream industry is revolutionizing ecommerce
The livestream industry is flourishing in China, with the top hosts gaining celebrity status and earning thousands per day off commissions. But becoming the next livestream star is not as easy as it seems.
After Ant IPO suspension, Beijing eyes antitrust regulation for tech sector
A week after the surprise suspension of the Ant Group’s gargantuan IPO, Chinese regulators are taking the country’s entire tech sector to task. Newly drafted antitrust regulations would bring scrutiny to Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, JD.com, and others.
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What began as an impromptu attempt at self-mockery has turned into the world’s largest shopping day. But Singles Day in China, “celebrated” every November 11...
Live-blogging Alibaba’s insane Tmall Double Eleven Gala
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Opinion: China’s right: Smartphones are a big reason Trump can’t win a trade war
"There’s an asymmetry here that Mr. Trump seems unaware of. Apple can’t build an iPhone without China, but China can build hundreds of millions of devices approaching the iPhone’s quality without Apple’s help," writes Vlad Savov, responding to an editorial published in the Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times.