I mean secretly, without most users knowing that the app is Chinese. ExpressVPN comes to mind. Zoom is sort of suspicious with its China-based engineering team.<p>I don't mean apps like WeChat which everyone knows is from China.
I think it’s worth distinguishing the CCP and ‘China’.<p>It’s unclear what the threshold for ‘controlled’ means.<p>Apple for example won’t offend the CCP because of their manufacturing dependence, and market access.<p>Epic is 40% owned by Tencent, which clearly gives the CCP a huge influence and a board seat, but not likely at the level of a company based in China.