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Ask HN: Which popular apps are owned or controlled from China?

5 pointsby hkaiover 4 years ago
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&#x27;t mean apps like WeChat which everyone knows is from China.

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zeptoover 4 years ago
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.