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1. I got the idea from the Tp-Link website. Zhao Jianjun is known in the US as Jeffery Chao. Him and his wife are the sole owners of the US company.

“in October 2024, established TP-Link Systems Inc., based in Irvine, CA, as its global headquarters and parent company with Jeffrey (Jianjun) Chao and his wife Hillary as sole owners. Jeffrey is CEO of the company.”

https://www.tp-link.com/us/landing/fact-sheet/

2. The sole owners are Chinese citizens, 95% of their employees are Chinese citizens living in China, most of the R&D happens in china, and the majority of the components of their products are manufactured in China.

They have an HQ building in the US, but 90% of it is leased to other companies.

This is a US based company in name only. It’s essentially a shell company designed to bypass a potential US ban.



Since 2018 TP-Link has manufactured products for the U.S. market in its own factory in Vietnam.

From your linked fact sheet.


They assemble final products in Vietnam. The majority of the components, including all of the chipsets, are manufactured in China.




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