Carvel is right. You can get great things made in China, if you want to pay the premium for quality. Remember, your iPhone is made in China. The computer you are using is made in China, etc. You get what you pay for, at the higher end, and you get garbage at the low end. The Chinese are instinctively geared towards reducing cost to the minimum without any regard to quality, unless you bring your standards to the plant and keep them in line.?

I worked for a company that used to import things from China. As soon as you relaxed your vigilance, garbage would come out of the assembly line because they would try to save a penny here and there by substituting the cheapest raw materials and supplies they could get that day.?

But if you are on top of your supplier, you can really get good stuff delivered. This is also true for India and other "manufacturing" nations out there.?

As consumers, we have more of a Russian Roulette experience as we only want onsies or twosies, but if you buy from the larger importers like Shars, Little Machine Shop, Matthews Precision, your chances of getting good product go up and you always have a recourse for a return and replacement if you strike out.?