Mine was made in the Taiwan factory. Taiwan manufacturing is geared more toward Japanese technology than China is. China may catch up but who knows when.
They already have. They can build world-class anything, pretty much. Thing is, they'll also build barely-marketable goods, if that is the price-point a customer comes to them asking to be met. Lots of companies won't do this, fearing it will reflect poorly on their reputation, whereas a lot of Chinese companies know their western markets aren't going to connect Peace Scooters with Baashan Astronautical, et al (or whomever build that crap), and hence none of the Chinese manufacturers of scooters are even attempting to build a brand outside of China.
Yet. That will change, but they're going to be as stigmatized as Japanese products were right after WWII... for a time.
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