On the subject of stuff made in China, their record is still spotty when it comes to reliability and quality control, and depending on how well western companies oversee the entire operation depends on good the final product is, the less intervention we have the less quality control there is. I saw a you tube video of a guy cutting several CF frames lenght wise but I couldn't find it today, but it showed Specialized have the best quality control, followed by Trek, then the bad ones started to pop up, and they were Pinarella and Bianchi, those last two had parts of the bladder for the mode left inside, peeling CF sheets due to failure to glue properly, etc. It you remember your steel days the lower and even medium quality steel frames sometimes had metal shavings inside, poorly brazed tubing leaving gaps, chunks of over abundance of braze material, large gaps between lugs and tubes, etc.
So this stuff is nothing new, but when a person buys something made in China and it lasts a few months past the warranty period it gets very frustrating. In addition to that I don't like the direction that China is taking their military, it's going to make this world a lot less stable than it already is if you can imagine that!
I understand this is my own personal garbage, but even setting politics aside you can't deny poor quality coming out of a lot of factories over there. With bike's, as I'm sure they can do with other stuff, sloppy workmanship can be hidden inside where people won't see the problems. There have been incidences of Chinese poisoning people and dogs in America, see:
http://www.rense.com/general78/chinsl.htm
But having said all of that it's impossible to buy everything you need not to be made in China, and some of it is indeed decent quality, and I'll buy a product made in China if it's significantly cheaper and I don't need a high costing product. It's weird I know, I try to do a balancing act with it all, if I find something made in some other country other than China for not a terrible amount more then I'll buy it.
Their quality control is so bad, even bad with their own brand names, like their cars, they can't be imported here because year after year they fail our federal safety standards. Granted someday they'll past the safety standards, but like the Korean car companies it took many years to get their quality control up, and like Korea it will take China many years to get their cars quality control up and all along Americans are buying them because they're cheap but at the cost of very high recalls and a lot of reliability issues.