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Ignoring political concerns (which is a big problem); Chinese manufacturers make great products.

DJI, huawei and insta360 are three off the top of my head that are perfectly capable of going up against global brands.

Additionally, almost every high quality brand has manufacturing in China; Apple, Microsoft, Nikon, Canon, Dyson, the list goes on.

This is more a problem of “you get what you pay for”. No name hoverboards were a real problem because designing a compact, high power draw, lithium powered device is hard to do. Segway, ninebot, etc all make great ‘hoverboard’ like products.

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> Chinese manufacturers make great products.

this should read "A few Chinese brands make great products"

Most Chinese brands make low quality products; corner cutting is rampant.

> Additionally, almost every high quality brand has manufacturing in China; Apple, Microsoft, Nikon, Canon, Dyson, etc.

That is because the foreign brands set the specs and define the standard of quality, which the factory (i.e., Foxconn) follows to the letter. So Chinese _manufacturers_ can make great products (when required and paid) but Chinese _brands_ generally do not.

This is one reason why Chinese brand products are cheaper than their foreign brand counterparts even when the foreign product was also manufactured in China.

DJI and Anger are two Chinese brands that have worked hard to develop a good reputation internationally, and deliver top products. I wouldn't trust Huawei though.

So Chinese factories are capable of high quality manufacturing. And Chinese brands are capable of high quality design and manufacturing.

That’s what I was trying to get across. As I said earlier you get what you pay for. I can buy great products made in China by Chinese companies and terrible products made in Switzerland by Swiss companies.

You're saying "it's possible" and your parent post is saying "it's unlikely". You're not disagreeing, exactly, but...

Chinese can make great products. You can also lose your shirt with some sort of shanzhai abomination. And you don't always pay bottom dollar for that, you are just getting 不便宜，也没好货. This is why it is very important for China to develop some reliable high quality brands.

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