I definitely pay more attention to papers affiliated with Chinese companies; the economics seem to be more conducive to doing good academic work and publishing it. I would say the same for companies like Apple (where TFA came from).

But to filter based on author's names sounds pretty darn racist.

I used to have the opposite rule in my signal processing field : the more Chinese names, the less innovation was there.

They seemed like they had to be churning out papers and any little adaptation to existing research triggered a new publication.

But it may have changed now.

That's... almost every AI paper.

So

"Made in China, designed by Apple in California"

should be:

"Made in China, designed by Chinese people in California"?