



1） TP-link



just bought a tp link archer c9 and its really good, honestly didn't expect this

You'd have to differentiate between Chinese operated and Chinese owned.

2） Volvo is owned by a Chinese company (Geely I believe), but is it a Chinese brand? Before that it was for many years owned by Ford. Was it considered a "US brand"? No, it remained a Swedish brand, with a US parent company. I think the same is true now.

Just like people don't think of Rolls Royce as a "German" brand (parent BMW) or Chrysler as an "Italian" brand or Nissan a "French" brand (cross-shareholding with Renault).





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3）Haier.

I remember buying a Haier wine fridge for my dad like 10 years ago and I was surprised to learn it was Chinese. Everyone somehow assumed it was German.

And now, most people realize that Huawei is Chinese, but a few years ago nobody had any idea.





Haier originated from a joint venture with the German Liebherr, so the assumption was correct to some degree.





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5）Sapphire Technology, technically in Hong Kong but many don't know is actually in Asia.









6，7）The same thing with ASUS and Acer, when people find out they are Taiwanese is a surprise to them because the brand name is well known but not associate with the country, while Samsung,

Hyundai, Kia, Sony, Canon, Fujitsu, Toyota, Nissan are instantly recognizable with their origin country

Most PC Gamers and enthusiasts are well aware ASUS and Acer are Taiwanese.





8）Oppo initially disguised the fact that it was a Chinese company by pretending to be a "small Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of Blu-ray disc players". Then it did the same thing a few years later with its OnePlus range of phones to compete with Xiaomi.

But I guess Oppo has mostly dropped that as a marketing tactic now, given its recent successes.





9）AMC movie theaters.





10）Just about every "German" beer you can buy in the supermarket.





11）Lenovo - actually a pretty good brand too from what I've heard

They bought IBM PC division after their own growth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo





12）Dico's,, people are genuinely surprised to hear it's Chinese. They seem to think it's a US chain, like McD and KFC.

13）Tonnes of make-up brands, anti-aging/wrinkle creams,, all that stuff. There's a huge shop in a mall near our place selling just one brand (I forgot the name, never heard of it before) sounding slightly Spanish and in huge letters and hanzi it says "From Spanish" "Good Top Spain Brand" and "Real Madrid Noble Brand". I should take a picture one day, it's really quite pathetic.





14）Majority of electronics. Vizio is a good example. It's touted as an Irvine California company, but half of the original owners were AmTran, based in Taiwan.

Likewise, Newegg.





15The London Taxi Company. You know, the black cabs all over London? Owned by Geely.





Apple - True to a large extent.









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