That anti-China bias is getting old, really.
Professionally, I dealt with both China, Japan (Sony) ad Kodak at the same time, around 15 years ago, in the digital photography world. China was great to deal with, delivered on time and exactly according to specs, no fuss. Sony was great as well if a bit obsessive (I remember a guy sleeping in his office waiting on a fix). Kodak was a pain to deal with - such a pain it is hard to describe - they were so stuck in their past and so disingenuous that I decided not to pursue the potential deal with them (a significant decision at the time) and one of their engineers told me privately "yes, we are going to hit a brick wall fast"...
On the hobby side, at around the same time, I purchased two optical devices, one from the US and one from China. They performed identically in terms of surface accuracy and light transmission (I tested them), only the US one was 3.5 times more expensive. I got into a discussion with the US designer and he finally conceded that yes, the current performance matched, but that his stuff was way more durable and more cleverly designed. 2 years ago, I retested both devices for fun. The light transmission of the US made device had collapsed (reflective surface tarnished/degraded). I would have loved to tell the US guy of my latest test, but I couldn't because he was out of business...
And BTW, almost all of US manufacturers in this area either collapsed, were bought/rescued by Eastern investors or re-oriented themselves to the "more pro" market, whatever that means (most often nostalgic well-heeled older amateurs with disposable income)
That's not a question of having good or bad US/Chinese/German whatever people. Just a question of stubborn arrogance leading to questionable business decisions in the long term IMHO. And just stupid plain racism. Remember when everyone was making fun of Japanese cars?