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Chelsey Dulaney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
210 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And so she built this shed.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And now she spends a couple hours a day packaging this stuff and sending it off.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And some of these people are making really good money.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

She was saying she can earn somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 pounds a month by doing this.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And outside of that, she just takes care of her kid.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

I think Europe also has this history of like high quality production and, you know, made in Europe, made in Germany, made in Italy, made in France.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

Like that's really important to Europe, like the quality.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And I think this is also very much ruffled the feathers of some of the people who think that Europe should be standing for, you know, high quality and sustainability and things like that.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

This French consumer watchdog, they put out the statement they've found illegal products on Xi'an's website.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And they had found a sex doll that looked like a little girl.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

Yeah, that's when things really, really escalated.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

Pretty immediately, France was threatening to ban Chien in France.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

So they were talking about banning their online platform, the website.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And then it got even worse because they also found weapons, illegal weapons on the website.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

So things like brass knuckles.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

which are illegal in France.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

And so the Paris prosecutor's office started an investigation.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

They referred it to the police.

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

Europe...

The Journal.
China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now

being the rules-based organization that it is, was moving very slowly on it.