"The last company I did drawings for, sent their drawings to China, who sent back the parts to here, where this company hired all temps to assemble the parts at less than $10 an hour, to then send the parts back to China for final assembly into refrigerators for resale in the U.S.!!"
The Chinese have zero respect for intellectual property. The time will come, when they beat you to market with a knockoff of your own product. I hear it time and again from my customers who are sourcing in China. In certain instances, it's gotten so bad that the knockoff is perceived as the original.
That's exactly why China will be a Third World sh!t-hole for a long time -- and has basically consigned itself to be the world's slave labor camp.
China will never be an economic power as long as they don't have even the most rudimentary legal and financial systems in place that are needed for a modern economy to flourish.