[slantyyz]

>> Chinese companies reputations are already destroyed.

How so? You have to be known to have a reputation that can be destroyed.

There aren't many Chinese (not to be confused with Taiwanese) brand names in the mainstream in North America. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Haier, and calling them mainstream is stretching it.

I'm sure as Chinese brands expand into the west, their reputations will be cemented more by the quality of their products than the fact they're Chinese. And given that China's already producing some pretty high quality stuff for everyone else, they don't have the same mountains to climb as the Japanese and the Koreans did.