Chinese startups, some quite formidable, arose almost out of thin air to sell on Amazon.com. In 2011, a software engineer named Steven Yang had quit his plum Silicon Valley job at Google and moved to Shenzhen to start an electronics company called Anker to sell accessories like replacement laptop batteries. Over the next few years, his product line expanded to include just about every kind of cable, charger, and battery imaginable, many of which soared to the coveted top spot of Amazon’s bestseller lists.
