It just boils down to labor cost. Its hard to compete against the slave labor market in China. Given a choice, I always buy products not made in China for this reason.

Five years ago while in Singapore, I ran into the CEO of a plastic manufacturing company. He said, his company wouldn't be competitive if they didn't use China's slave labor. At that time, $1,200/year was consider upper middle class in China.

It just boils down to labor…