Political legend. The McCarthy era looked for communists because they were there. A witch hunt looks for something that does not exit. Now that time has past, most historians agree on 1. communists were present, and 2. in today's political climate being communist is not equated with treason.

A buyer of any product can apply any criteria to the purchase. Buyers do not have to past a current media hyped political correctness. Sellers are restricted in discriminations, buyers are not. This buyer does not to use his money to support potential enemy regimes. Taiwan will never be a military threat to USA. PRC is on the road to developing a more modern military force. Is this a threat? Who knows. Maybe this buyer remembers post WWII and the 2 red enemies. One disolved. The other is being attempted to be moved from enemy to friend category by increased trade. If he evaluates this as hooey, and doesn't want to support this, that's his right.

We're still waiting for more feedback from the poster. We have tried to help him in his buying a bike quest with his current criteria. You can argue with the poster about his criteria. But this thread belongs here as he is not advocating his purchase criteria as the perfect criteria. He's just asking, with what I value, what are some bike buying options.

We would respond in a similar manner to your criteria. Name calling and interjecting meaningless politics into this forum is not a good method for gaining respect of other forum members.