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"Why Chinese Electric Guitars Are Taking Over the Guitar Industry Fender's Squier line, Epiphone's entire current lineup, and Yamaha's FG and FS acoustics are all built in China, to the exact same specifications used everywhere else those brands manufacture. This video breaks down how the country went from the punchline behind cheap Les Paul knockoffs to the manufacturing backbone behind six of the world's top ten guitar brands, tracing the same reputation arc Japanese guitars went through in the nineteen seventies lawsuit era. Inside: the real export and production numbers behind the shift, why factories like Farida and Kepma stopped hiding where they build and started competing on spec instead, and the Fender versus Thomann Stratocaster shape lawsuit currently playing out in a German courtroom, a legal fight that only makes sense if the guitars on the other side of it are actually good enough to worry about. Sourced from trade classification data, manufacturing industry reports, and current guitar press coverage of the ongoing Fender litigation." #ChineseGuitars #guitargear #madeinchina #squier #epiphone #FenderLawsuit #harleybenton #GuitarIndustry #GuitarManufacturing #StratocasterLawsuit #GuitarNews #ThomannVsFender 16m01s Aug 8, 2026 Six Strings and One Tone Why Chinese Electric Guitars Are Taking Over the Guitar Industry - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2dZDYq0t38