Dan
I am glad to here you say that, Many people on this forum consider everything from China to be poor quality but seldom realize they simply build to the standards the American and European owned company ask them to.
I have seen really good quality come from China and really poor quality come from Germany.
Quality has nothing to do with were something in made but rather what price it is made too.
Any one who deals with sourcing from China will know your choices are endless,
I recently helped source a product from China for a friend, we had to choose what quality bearings we wanted, if we wanted quality copper we wanted for the winding, how much time they were to spend finishing the product it all comes down to price. You want cheap and nasty you can get it, you want a vacuum that looks and feels like a Mercedes with a hose you got it. You even get to choose quality control.