Tuesday, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:47
My opinion is nothing to do with ignorance, Boobook2 - but it's based on plenty of experience in trying to get satisfactory performance from Chinese-built products.
Everything they make is over-rated, and under-performs.
Even Caterpillar were taken to the cleaners with their first engine manufacturing operation in China, with Tianjin Engine Works.
Cat went into JV with this large Chinese company, and that group of Chinese promptly went on to illegally redirect shares to themselves and associates - went on to produce "genuine" Caterpillar/Perkins engine products with substandard components (that rapidly failed), produced via corrupt deals with other Chinese - sold Cat/Perkins engines that were over-rated in output, above Cat engineers authorisation - and when Cat closed the JV down, these Chinese blithely continued to produce ersatz Cat/Perkins engines, using Cat trademarks and registered designs, without authorisation.
It took Cat 7 yrs to shut the Tianjin Engine Works JV down, using the Chinese courts.
As a result, we now have no idea if a Chinese Cat/Perkins engine being sold, is a genuine Cat product or not, unless we specifically
check with Caterpillar and provide the engine ID details.
On top of that nasty experience, Cat has just been ripped off again, this time with the Chinese ERA Mining JV - where Cat uncovered "deliberate, multi year co-ordinated misconduct" - i.e., financial fraud - that cost Cat US$564M.
Is it any wonder Xi Jinping is going on a country-wide rampage to root out corruption? It's long overdue.
Maybe you need to read the book, "Poorly Made in China".
Cheers, Ron.
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