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**emexiagog** · 08-29-2012, 10:31 PM

My own experience with Chinese made power tools like Makita, is the quality NOW SUCKS from this once great and long lasting Japanese Brand. I still got a USA made fridge, made in the late 50's that still works. Try that with a cheap labor item from China.

But China is the oldest civilization on this globe. And they will eventually hand us our lunch. Time stops for no man.

Japan used to have a reputation for making cheap crap.
China has a reputation for making cheap crap because that is what American business goes there to buy. They want to close the plant in Ohio, and make what they made there in China, and to justify it they want to pay next to nothing, and they buy cheap crap.
If you look at the last 3 or 4 thousand years, pick a year and odds are (unless you picked one of the last few hundred years, that China was the richest, most powerful, most technically advanced country in the world in that year.
That's the natural state of the world, there was a little aberration, power moved to Europe, and then to America, and now it's returning to it's natural home, China.

08-29-2012, 10:31 PM	#25
emexiagog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 526 Senior Member	My own experience with Chinese made power tools like Makita, is the quality NOW SUCKS from this once great and long lasting Japanese Brand. I still got a USA made fridge, made in the late 50's that still works. Try that with a cheap labor item from China. But China is the oldest civilization on this globe. And they will eventually hand us our lunch. Time stops for no man. Japan used to have a reputation for making cheap crap. China has a reputation for making cheap crap because that is what American business goes there to buy. They want to close the plant in Ohio, and make what they made there in China, and to justify it they want to pay next to nothing, and they buy cheap crap. If you look at the last 3 or 4 thousand years, pick a year and odds are (unless you picked one of the last few hundred years, that China was the richest, most powerful, most technically advanced country in the world in that year. That's the natural state of the world, there was a little aberration, power moved to Europe, and then to America, and now it's returning to it's natural home, China.
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