Try not to buy their products. I defy you to! They make almost all of our electronics, all of our small appliances, critical parts of our automobiles, almost everything we buy has components made in China.
I’ve just retired from a life spent in industry in north America and you can’t do much without involving China. We handed them complete control of our markets because we were more interested in cheap labour. We complain about human rights violations and environmental pollution when its driven by our own greed and lack of foresight. The last company I worked for, a multinational automotive corporation, is dependant on it’s Chinese divisions to produce its products. The few high volume items they produce outside of China are made in other areas where they are allowed to pollute and exploit the local cheap labour. (Mexico)
its easy to blame the Chinese, but we’ve screwed ourselves here. We’ve given up our own manufacturing base and now that its in the control of people who don’t care about us we whine about it.
do I sound a bit bitter? I spent much of my professional life watching work go overseas while our manufacturing base shrank. I was lucky in that I managed to stay continuously employed during my career but finally took an early retirement because work had become so difficult and stressful due to the eternal tightening of belts at the engineering level in the automotive industry, increasing workloads and the difficulties in getting product to launch because we the engineers worked here and the launch was always in a foreign land who couldn’t care less.