This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Labubu appears to be yet another sign of China’s global success. Figurines of the grinning, pointy-eared elf, ...

Labubu appears to be yet another sign of China’s global success. Figurines of the grinning, pointy-eared elf, marketed by a Chinese company called Pop Mart, are so wildly popular that fans around the ...