they copy the products with lower margins then western companies can't compete on price. I think this is outdated thinking in 2026. It's more like western comp

they copy the products with lower margins then western companies can't compete on price. I think this is outdated thinking in 2026. It's more like western companies go to China, look at designs that China has done, buy them in bulk directly from the factory, ask for small modifications, then slap their own logos on the products. Then these western brands add a big markup on the products. So it isn't that western companies can't compete on price. It's just that the prices from Chinese companies are much closer to the source without western markup. A huge portion of products you're buying on Amazon from western brands were actually fully designed and manufactured in China. Not only that, go to a trade fair in China and you'll see that many of their products have surpassed the West in quality and design. They just haven't been exported to the west for various reasons including tariffs, marketing, no western partner. A big business opportunity in the next few years is to figure out how to help Chinese businesses export worldwide - usually marketing/branding/localization expertise.