Yes, when the Chinese are told exactly how to make something, they can mass produce the thing someone else designed. And they’re capable of mass producing a design handed to them to the letter. They often simply choose to cheap out on the materials and/or the workmanship because they’re cheats. And while they’re mass producing the design you gave them, they’re stealing every bit of technology they can to use in new products they can sell to compete with you. Because they’re thieves. And when you call them on it, they’ll say how dare you accuse them of such a thing, because they’re liars.
Nobody should be doing business with China. The people in Europe committing to China’s Belt and Road Initiative are committing economic suicide. The people in Africa signing contracts with China for rare Earth minerals are seeing their only available natural resources extracted for pennies by Chinese companies using Chinese labor, denying future generations a potential major source of economic expansion. And all the western nations that have farmed out their manufacturing to China, only to see their former factory workers unable to afford to buy the products they used to make are feeling it too. This was a major fault President Trump identified early on and used to beat Clinton in 2016.
China is waging all-out economic war on every part of the world. And they’ve convinced us to politely thank them for it.
Yes they are, so who is the dumb ones? We rave about our drones as if we are the only ones who have or ever will have them and we got the tech from Israel who was making them for a couple hundred dollars.
I agree that they sell us junk but I don't agree that they can't make quality stuff just because we are willing to buy the junk.