I don't have anything against quality made imports; but I have yet to see anything from China I would call a quality made product.
What ticks me off is the USA is foolishly giving up basic industries to the Chinese in exchange for low cost shoddy junk made at slave labor wages in lousy working conditions.
A buddy of mine is building a wood fence and needed new fence posts...the 8' cedar fence posts Despot & Doh's (Home Depot & Lowe's) sells were from China. Seems to me that we have plenty of wood too. Why are we importing fence posts along with food? Oh that's right...it's cheaper.
I was down to installing the last flue pipe fitting on our new water heater after 5:00 in the afternoon, when the day-old 3" Chinese elbow blew apart at the seams. Off to Home Despot (AGAIN!) for another Chinese elbow, and I hope it holds up.
So what happens when China decides withhold the basics they are exporting to the USA? Good question and I hope we don't find out the hard way.
Remember folks, the noise you hear coming from Chairman Mao's grave is not him rolling over in it; but him laughing his butt off that he couldn't beat the USA with a failed political philosophy...but with addicting Americans with cheap merchandise. Of course I blame our government for not being tougher on the Chinese for dumping their products on the world market. A N.Y. Times article on anti-freeze toothpaste mentioned that South Carolina prisons were getting tubes of Chinese toothpaste for 9-cents a tube. You want to tell me how anyone can make a profit on that? If that isn't product dumping, I don't know what is. Even if the US government were to impose a 100% tariff of Chinese junk, it would still be cheaper than quality made products from the USA, Europe, Japan and elsewhere.
Of course American and other countries' business leaders are hellbent to make more money for executive management at the cost of the average working stiff.
Two different TV stations had a story on the Chinese tire scandal, and they both mentioned that 60% of all products being recalled in the USA were made in China. I would like to know what the country breakdown is for the remaining 40%.
Also, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines are to China what Mexico is to the USA.
To paraphrase Nancy Reagan, "Whenever possible, just say NO to Chinese made crap!"