European and American brands have higher quality standards than Chinese brands. Whether the manufacturing happens in china or elsewhere is completely irrelevant to the actual quality of the product.
For popular global brands in the lucrative consumer electronics sector - where good reviews are everything - I am not so sure.
> Whether the manufacturing happens in china or elsewhere is completely irrelevant to the actual quality of the product.
Completely irrelevant? What makes you think that?
Anecdotally again, most of those numerous bad reviews for Beats by Dr. Dre exist because apparently they tend to fall apart after only days of use. So much for western quality control.