The Catch: China's Ultracheap Goods, Unmasked

From Chinese global shopping hub Aliexpress to bulk Chinese vendors slipping in at unbeaten prices, we explore just how China manages to do it.

The Alibaba Group’s world-renowned Aliexpress shopping hub. Bulk Chinese vendors that have a way to make just about anything for 78 cents. Giant corporation Temu’s forever alluring, unbelievably cheap prices. The thousands of companies that use China as their manufacturing gem. Curiosity has been rapidly building as the Chinese goods market has exploded in the past few decades, and today we explore just how China works its so-called “magic.”