"Corroding Chinese fingers" eh? Wow... I guess the keyboard or phone you used to type this li'l note was made by those "Corroding Chinese fingers" as well, not to mention your shoes and clothes perhaps....
Without those "corroding Chinese fingers", you'd be sitting there butt naked playing with your imaginary friend (your imaginary li'l keyboard/phone)...
Well I'm old enough to remember better times, when goods were manufactured with skill and craftsmanship. What has been allowed to happen to manufacture in the US and Europe is a disgrace.
So now we have snow blowers with Chinese engines, that can not blow out the driveway once without blowing up the first time out. Yes, that happened to one of my neighbors, after the first snowfall this winter. I had previously warned him that would the result from a Chinese LTC engine!
So now I continue to blow out all four of the properties on this circle again, with my 41 year old made in America rig, that has several thousand hours on it by now, with an engine made by Americans in Wisconsin.
As far as my AV systems, very little of it was made in China. Of the 53 speaker drivers in use in my three systems, only six were made in China, the rest in the UK, Scandinavia, or Germany. I built the speakers and crossovers. None of the crossover parts are of Chinese manufacture.
All of my 13 two channel power amps in current use, say made in England. All of my four turntables have items made in the UK, Switzerland or USA, all of the preamps and the two FM tuners where made in the UK. My reel to reel machines were made in Switzerland, and one in the UK.
My two cassette machine were made in Japan. I think only my digital disc players, my AV pre/pros were made in China or Vietnam.
This push to make gear in China was a bad move, and impoverished us all. It has created a bunch of low paying service jobs, instead of skilled ones. This has created the need for vast social spending, and high taxes. The most pernicious, are sales taxes, as they creates a feedback loop for ever cheaper and shoddy goods to keep the base price ever lower.
We have been governed by fools for the last 40 to 50 years. Many of our "captains of industry" and CEO class, have been among the dumbest twits' in history.