Well whatever the politics and the economic wars going on, a quick look around my home shows me most clothes, whitegoods, TV, some food, just about all tools all come from or via China. The quality in most is as good as from anywhere. heck, chinese cloths used to be always too small/short, shoes too narrow, tools cheap and nasty. It has taken about ten years to get that right so hopefully with bikes (and the new cars/trucks like the 'great wall 4wd') we will be there soon. Yes, we have to complain but that can be disconcerting when your complaints are ignored by dealers importers and amkers but slowly but surely these things always change. We are the pioneers and win by it, the saving I made on my own lovely piece of chinabike crap will easily cover repairs and extras needed - as long as it doesn'r kill me meanwhile. I will always be grateful for the opportunity chinese goods have given me as much as I am sometimes annoyed at the quality, else on my disability pension I would not have had the opportunity to take up motorcycling again, simple as that. And then I watch HD TV when I am indoors, connect to internet via my chines usb modem, make bows and arrows with my chinese tools. I just wish someone would import cheap chinese girlfriends, I love chinese food but can't get it where i live! I wouldn't mind if some bits fell off during the running in period ...