Hello and welcome to World Business Report on the BBC World Service.
We'll be with you again today.
Great, as always, to have your company.
In a moment,
we're going to be joined live from Brussels by Europe's top consumer watchdog to ask why the 27-nation European Union bloc seems so concerned by the Chinese fast fashion retailer Shein.
Also on the programme today,
we'll cross live to the Ivory Coast as leaders build up there to the announcement of a new leader for the African Development Bank.
And what's the point of a so-called golden visa?
We're looking for smart people with great connections who are passionate about business and growing business.
And we are seeing those people interested in New Zealand.
Yeah,
more on New Zealand's new visa aimed at attracting wealthy business leaders to the country and why they're seeing a surge in applicants from the United States.
That's what's come a little bit later on here on World Business Report.
Let's start today, though, talking fashion, because since its entry into the market, well.
less than two decades ago, unbelievably.
China's Xi'an has gone from being a scrappy upstart looking to disrupt the big global players to perhaps the dominant player in that most lucrative of markets,
young people shopping online.
Challenged by regulators around the world over its supply chains, though,
how it treats its workers, its environmental credentials, and most recently,
feeling the squeeze over whether its parcels should face tariffs when they land at their European,