How Western Companies Helped Create Their Chinese Competitors – Like Labubu : China Labor Watch

How Western Companies Helped Create Their Chinese Competitors – Like Labubu : China Labor Watch

On January 17, China Labor Watch Executive Director Li Qiang published an op-ed titled “How Western Companies Helped Create Their Chinese Competitors – Like Labubu.” The article argues that decades of Western outsourcing in pursuit of lower costs and higher shareholder returns fundamentally reshaped global competition by transferring manufacturing capacity, supply-chain know-how, and branding capabilities to China. Using the global rise of Labub…