There's plenty of crap products from EVERY country in the world, and more than a fair share from China at the moment. BUT, China right now has the same reputation that Taiwan had many, many years ago. Unlike Taiwan though, China is improving their processes at a faster pace so will be in a good position a few years from now, as I stated earlier.
I never said that there aren't inferior products being supplied, what I responded to was your blanket statement that "You very well know that the Chinese or Taiwanese economy is based on mass production and price sensitivity. They cannot and will never put the actual needed workman ship into a machine build"!
This is plain and utter crap! That may have been relevant many years ago, and possibly applies to some sector pockets today for sure, just as it applies to many other countries. I have been buying from all over the world for many years now, and I can certainly say that no one country has the world monopoly on bad service, inferior products or build quality, or pricing! Back to your statement that the stuff from Taiwan will never be good, well it's been good enough for many years from many suppliers now, to meet the same level of workmanship, quality control, and accuracy that Japan is famous for.
Have a look at what's available in the market today, the vast majority of stuff is Chinese produced simply by virtue of sheer volume, probably 1/3 to 1/2 will be considered sub-standard or inferior, some with be of fairly high standard, but almost all the manufacturers such as Optimum/Vario have their machines made to their specifications, and produced in China. And the majority of the commonly available higher end stuff is from where? Yep! Taiwan!
Would you say the BF16/20, etc, series is garbage too?
You had some bad experiences, that's too bad, and I could tolerate an ignorant remark that all Chinese stuff is crap, partly because a lot of the time, quite a lot may well be crap, and people seem to like harping on Chinese stuff. Even though most of the stuff on the world market is nothing more than re-branded Chinese stuff, but let's just choose to ignore that little fact hey?
But Taiwan can only ever produce crap? What a lot of rot!
cheers, Ian