I did some reading after your post. Wow. Just wow. There’s a ‘Cuba town’ street in Milan. Prato is a garment manufacturing area, which they have taken over. They previously (and I’m sure still do) took pics of beautiful expensive hand bags and clothing and then replicate it cheaply as they always do .
Can they do anything original besides copy everyone else ? I have zero respect. Absolute Zero.
Cuba - China town
Damn autocorrect
Actually, the company I worked for had a couple Chinese magnet suppliers, one in particular*, that were simply better than any other US supplier (except one US supplier that was maybe as good, but way overpriced even compared to other US suppliers.)
*This one did some of their own research into advanced formulations and processes. I was duly impressed.
This is not “typical”, but it does happen.
I’ve also seen very good original products from quality minded firms in China with Western management and a mix of Western & Chinese engineers: Not every creative idea came from the Westerners...