The China Export or “CE” logo looks almost identical to the European CE logo, which is one of their regulatory seals. A lot of people accuse the logo of being designed (I assume implicitly by the Chinese government) specifically to imitate the European CE logo to deceive consumers, but no one actually gives sources and instead just say something like “it’s obvious because of how similar they look!” Does anyone know of any actual resources on how the logo came to be and exactly why it looks that way?

As a side note, I couldn’t find any evidence that the China Export logo was actually designed by the Chinese government or that it was used by any official Chinese regulatory system. All I could find was that it started appearing in 2008 on some Chinese manufactured products.