China’s ultracheap e-commerce app, Temu, took the world by storm, topping download charts in 2023 and 2024. Now, the very tactics that fueled its rise are becoming its biggest problem.
On January 21, Turkish competition authorities raided Temu’s office in Istanbul, as part of an antitrust investigation. This was just weeks after European Union regulators raided Temu’s headquarters in Dublin, probing whether the company benefits from unfair Chinese state subsidies. In Poland,

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