How many companies will ruin their brand name by saving $$$ & moving manufacturing operations to China? Frankly, I don’t even think consumers are seeing the savings. More likely, the savings are passed along to the CEO and top executives in the form of compensation.
I make a point now to look for the origin on everything I buy. It’s not always easy, but I really try to avoid anything made in China. It’s bad enough that product quality has declined in the US over the last 20 years but you can pretty much count on receiving an inferior product once it moves offshore.
Where I work some products have been moved to China because the patent's expired, competitors copied them, uotsourced thwm to China and undercut us substantially in price.
I took years to find a source that could meet our specifications and pass inspection, every lot delivered is inspected using a sample plan, if any failures are found we go through everything 100%
Quality isn't something to expect from China, nor is consistency.
Oh and we barly make anything on these products now.