I bought a Chinese tractor, but before I did it I did a whole bunch of research on their manufacturing system. Then I chose the factory that built the tractor and ordered from a specific factory.
The Chinese might have 10 different factories all making diodes and the quality can be from poor to great. They have ten more for making each and every component they manufacture every component for whatever they're building.
The factories in China are distributed by political decisions rather than any intelligent business decision.
The Chinese wanted to improve the quality of the products they manufacture so they decided to rate their factories internally. Then the highest rated factories would get components from the highest rated component manufacturers. They used this as a way of getting some market efficiency in a communist system, but it never killed off the least efficient factories like they wanted.
The factory that I ordered my tractor from was the highest rated in China, they actually had poured new concrete floors for their factory. All of the other factories and the component manufacturers had dirt floors. The reason they were able to do those improvements is they had partnered with the South Korean company.
So western and other eastern nations will partner with specific factories that are producing at high quality and they'll produce decent products. The problem is all of the other factories still exist and they're all producing the same kinds of components. Those other factories have to do something with their products. The very worst of them will simply go for an all-out fake, those are the ones you have the most problems with.
J
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