RE: Is China getting expensive?
I wouldn't say the quality is getting better. The prices maybe getting higher, but that's to be expected. If you are the only company manufacturing a product, (because you ran everyone else out of business) you can charge a higher price for it. It's called, supply and demand. We've let all our jobs and manufacturing go to China because they could produce it for less with cheap labor,less Government regulation and no Unions. Now that all the American manufacturers have since sent all their manufacturing to China (called Out Sourcing), China makes the rules.
Now it's time for China to become the industrialized nation of the world, just like America was in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.
The "Made in America" logo is getting harder to find anymore.
Frank