Not sure what you have had to deal with but that is not my experience at all. More often than not any issues I have had with suppliers is my purchasing department was the one trying to get lower cost goods without getting engineering and Vendor QC involved.
I have never had to deal with an American supplier "downsizing" wire from one guage to the next smaller for example.
Nor as linked above, including extra electronics to exfiltrate credit card data from terminals.
I did not have too much experience with US manufacturers. I however can talk about Canada and Brasil. My experience with Brasil was stellar. Canada - you better fucking watch. As for China - I did order directly high power DC/DC converters. Those were available in the US and China. China came 10 times cheaper ($25 vs $250 apiece). The devices where we have installed those still work like a charm more than a decade after.
Chinese manufacturing 10+ years ago is completely different to Chinese manufacturing in 2025. the other comment about "zero trust" is significantly more apt
It’s always different 10 years ago, though, isn’t? Everything is. Rose colored glasses and all.
I remember these exact same “Chinese quality” threads 10 years ago and they read pretty much the same as this one, complete with the “well 10 years ago I got great stuff” and “yeah 10 years ago was different”.
The only difference is that is more difficult to hold Chinese suppliers accountable. Americans will happily cheat you as well.