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GE appliances is not owned by GE anymore (since 2016), it is now a subsidiary of Haier, a Chinese company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances

I can't speak to their washers, but I've been pleasantly surprised with my Haier refrigerator. I needed a very specific width to fit my kitchen, and theirs was pretty much the only not-obscenely-expensive option due to being a non-standard size.

It has gone without any need for repair far longer than other new refrigerators my extended family has bought, but it also doesn't have an ice maker or water filter- just a really dumb refrigerator and freezer that (knock on wood) Just Works.

Refrigerators may be the one market in which the Chinese (Haier, at least) have a better reputation than the Koreans. The consensus (based both on what I've seen online, and a refrigerator repairman I consulted) is that Samsung and LG refrigerators are trouble-prone.

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