One thing to add is the building down in quality that sometimes occurs. I read something a month or two ago by someone who had experience, maybe it was on this board? Anyway he wrote about how quality didn't go up as production went along, it could go down as the management decided to use lower quality materials or components to increase profits.

On the other hand, one thing the Chinese may be doing better than the US is, when they find a really bad bit of corporate malfeasance, they actually shoot the executives.

R.