I can still remember when we said the same about Japan.
Anything with the Made In Japan label was junk.
This American guy changed it all!
Good point but there are significant differences between and China and Japan.
China is a collection of warring tribes and always has been. Their culture doesn’t value quality, honor or integrity.
Anything with the Made In Japan label was junk.’
Actually it was a number of Oriental gentlemen including this fellow that accomplished that:
http://www.warbirdforum.com/sakai.htm
FDR was among a lot of establishment insiders who thought those silly little people in Japan might be useful as the mechanism to get the US fully into the war against Hitler but dismissed the Gentlemen of Japan as being any real military threat. The Japanese were congenitally near sighted, their skull shape indicated that they had only a simian capacity for mimicking us higher life forms from the West. Also their skull shape prevented them from having good peripheral vision, a vital necessity for good combat pilots.So they would never be able to outsmart us or outfight us. They were physically puny and understrength so Americans and Brits could easily handle such creatures on the battlefield.
Umm, so sorry, those stereotypes detonated on 7 December 1941 and the US got a crash course in how mocking chauvinistic attitudes could have some real bad consequences.
China today reminds me of Japan in the 1920’s only this time it is a country with a big landbase and a pretty big population and the capacity to equal or exceed the US technologically.
With leaders like the Mahdi and Hilda we could be in for a replay of the Great pacific War with a somewhat different ending.