Xu Xiaolin/Getty Images Businesses worldwide have evolved significantly since the 2000s, and that's especially true of technology companies. However, China has been rapidly outpacing the United States — whose manufacturing output has seen significant decline since the mid-20th century — in manufacturing capacity and in the pricing of consumer technology. Nowadays, Chinese companies like TCL make high-quality products at prices that Western brands often struggle to compete with. As AI data centers cause various consumer tech prices to skyrocket, there is some hope that China-based companies may be able to meet continued consumer demand at affordable prices, therefore contributing to the…