China’s live-stream retail market is projected to grow to be worth 961 billion yuan (US$145 billion) in 2020, up from 433.9 billion yuan the previous year, according to iiMedia Research. The increase has been linked to a surge in online activity during the coronavirus pandemic. But Chinese retailers are eager to expand their businesses beyond the country and are hiring multilingual foreigners living in China to approach customers abroad. Lalo Lopez from Spain, a resident of China for about nine…