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I've lived in Mainland China for several years.

Everything is a cheap knockoff, even their top line stuff. Douglas allowed the Chinese to license build MD-80's for a while. No two were alike, and every one of the 20 or so built were completely unserviceable within 5 years.

It's all western-style hype with the understanding that it will be done with slave labor and minimum or absent quality control.

Our joke was that QC was simply throwing that one away, and buying another one for $2. Whatever it was, shoes, CD player or flat screen TV.

Don't even get me started on automobiles or intellectual property rights with the DVD's for sale on every street corner. I had a selection of them that were laughable. They were filmed in a theater, and every time a cell phone would ring, or someone in the row in front of the camera came back with popcorn, it was all there. Kinda like 'Mystery Theater' I think it was called, where the silhouette puppets from outer space sat in the front row of the theater and made cheesy comments all thru whatever "B" movie was playing. They are a riot.