Chinese behemoth Pinduoduo to take on Amazon in US – with even worse labor practices

One of the world's biggest e-commerce companies is known for rock-bottom prices - and allegedly brutal conditions

Americans addicted to Amazon could soon be wooed by a Chinese tech giant most of them have never heard of. Pinduoduo is planning to expand its reach to the US next month, according to reports in Bloomberg and Reuters. The company is known for delivering goods at rock-bottom prices - while putting its employees through conditions that a prominent labor activist says should horrify Americans.

Described by its founder, the former Google employee Colin Huang, as a cross between Costco and Disneyland", Pinduoduo has ridden a wave of meteoric Chinese tech growth to become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world since its founding in 2015.