Low quality parts manufacturing greatly hurt mainland China from 1947 to 1979, especially “The Great Leap Forward”.

Chinese coal mines were having problems with poor quality Russian and local parts when I visited in 1981. Chinese Managers prefered to keep 1930s British and USA machines going over new, and praised British and USA quality. I also heard this same attitude at a German built beer brewery, and at a factory still building coal fired locomotives.

Now in 2022 I worry that the Chinese are building better parts for military weapons, and have witnessed this at Harbor Freight Tool stores.

I also worry that USA industry cannot any longer build the volume of weapons needed to defend the country, and at the extremely high cost per item.

Add these changes together and it is easy to predict a “terrible reckoning”
is likely to happen.