If you are planning to give up Prorasso because of the Chinese ownership, do you also plan to trade in your iPhones, which are assembled in China from parts made all over the world?
Do you plan to stop using Zoom video conferencing, whose software was written by Chinese programmers?
Will you throw out your Yaqi shaving brushes?
Will you throw out your Gold Dollar straight razors and your Guangxi hones?
Will you toss your Weishi, Baili and Ming Shi razors?
Lenovo, a Chinese company, is the world's largest manufactuers of personal computers.
If you take medications and use generic brands rather than expensive name brands, there is a good chance they were made in China. One of the reasons the USA had difficulty ramping up testing for COVID-19 is that many of the components of the test had to be sourced from China.
Like it or not, we live in a global economy. I just purchased Anker Soundcore Liberty Air 2 earphones, made in China because they provide high quality at a reasonable price. As workers in the USA and other developed countries have demanded higher wages and improved working conditions, consumers in those same countries have demanded lower prices; manufacturing has been outsourced to countries like Mexico, China, Korea, Viet Nam, Thailand, India, etc. where wages are not so high. We will have to decide which is more important to us, being self sufficient as an individual country, or having a higher standard of living.
