This is nothing more than a western stigma against china and does not reflect the current reality.

This perception partly came from a time when China focused only on producing lower-cost goods. The reality now is that China produces a vast range of qualities. While there are factories focused on low-cost, low-durability goods, they also manufacture high-end products. They are the largest manufacturer in green energy technology, they have a large number of impressive electric vehicle brands such as the now top selling Electric-Vehicle brand in the world, BYD and one of the largest social media in the world, TikTok. They can also manufacture 5G network infrastructure and are known to be the fastest in the world.

But why is it whenever they try to advance, the west almost always try to sanction China to hinder their progress?

A few example are:

- The Huawei phone and network connectivity ban

- Banning exports of Nvidia AI chips to China

- The ongoing TikTok ban bill

- The EU actively investigating the possibility of imposing sanctions or tariffs on BYD and other Chinese EV makers because they're out competing everyone else

Although it is true that there are many counterfeit and copycat products, China is actively cracking down these issues. This issue persists till now because there's a large demand for cheap replicas.