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This is something that I think a lot average people haven’t fully realized yet and still think Made in China = low quality and cheap, when in fact China nowadays not only leads in terms of scale but quality as well. Funnily enough this used to be the case with Germany once upon a time as well, where “Made in Germany” was originally a derogatory insult slapped onto to German goods by the then more industrialized British but backfired as Germany eventually caught up and overtook Britain in manufacturing.
I think it’s a lack of brand anchoring.
We don’t get some of the best regarded Chinese brands in some Western countries- no Xiaomi or Huawei or BYD stuff, for example.
It’s harder to point the quality on a contract-manufactured product from a non-Chinese bran. You can mention that iPhones are generally well-made devices but people fixate on the “designed in California” aspect. Design doesn’t fo the SMD soldering!
Lenovo is probably the brand easiest to point to as an American. Thinkpads still have a rep of quality rven though IBM hasn’t been involved in many years.
I think it’s racism.
Yeah and Germany was also considered cheap & low quality. Italy also (but they never managed to get into the high quality manufacturing tier and were in fact outcompeted by china)
Scary enough Germany passed the UK economy in 1914.
