In 2023, China's top overseas e-commerce platforms, dubbed the "Four Little Dragons" (Temu, SHEIN, AliExpress, and TikTok Shop), have made significant global strides. These platforms accounted for over one-third of China’s cross-border e-commerce GMV, impacting markets with low-priced goods and shifting logistics and trade models. Compliance and regulatory challenges are major hurdles, with focus on intellectual property, tariffs, and geopolitical tensions shaping the strategies of these Chinese firms.

Fast fashion giant Shein, upstart Temu, AliExpress, and newcomer TikTok Shop are reshaping the industry by connecting consumers directly to China’s manufacturing power

Amazon’s e-reader, which just completed its exit from its largest market, failed to tailor its products to local customers as well as its competition

Fees will be slashed to 5% on clothing priced below $15 and to 10% on items priced from $15 to $20 — down from 17% for both categories

In the emerging business of ‘social shopping,’ TikTok dominates the social and is spending big to improve the selling. Amazon dominates selling, and is working on the social.

Cross-border e-commerce sellers post losses and revenue declines as platforms tighten compliance policies and as inflation saps demand

The e-commerce platform’s advance into Europe follows a $912.5 million investment from its Chinese parent

Shein overtakes Amazon in U.S. downloads, Xiaomi to test self-driving cars

Ant Group launches digital bank in Singapore, Douyin reports bumper growth in key sales metric

E-commerce giant stops supplying devices to retailers and will close its Chinese digital bookstore next year, following retreats by other U.S. tech companies

Momenta takes half-a-billion dollars from big-name backers, Lenovo chairman insists listing failure will not hit its business

Alibaba Cloud’s custom-designed chip, which is based on Softbank’s ARM architecture, seen as a competitive response to the perceived technology advantage of rival Amazon Web Services ’s own line of ARM-based chips

Crackdown also weeds out merchants involved in identity falsification, bribery and sale of counterfeit goods, company vice president for Asia reports

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Amazon fined $887 million over European privacy violations and Chinese expert warns against mixing and matching of vaccines

Industry group complained to Beijing about U.S. e-commerce giant’s action against the businesses, some of which are facing bankruptcy