The reason for this:
Factories did not see an attention to quality as something that would improve their business prospects, but merely as a barrier to increased profitability. Working to achieve higher levels of quality did not make me a friend of the factory, but a pariah.
In this, as in much else, the Chinese are great testers of limits."
If there is one silver lining in the collapse of our economy it is that we may have a cold and sniffles. The Chinese will get mortal pneumonia as will every other sc*mbag we owe money to.