Can you provide links to document these suggestions? I can't find anything on the interwebs to suggest that Bianchi has licenced it's name out. While it is true that Bianchi USA oversees the production of bicycles built in Taiwan and in Italy for the worldwide market, they are a division of Bianchi, which has been part of Cycleurope Group, the Swedish company of Grimaldi Industri AB, since 1997. The USA website and the Italian website show the same range of road bikes, mountain bikes and city bikes.

I have seen, worked on and ridden a few recent Taiwanese made Bianchi road, cyclocross and city bikes, and I can assure you they are quality modern bikes with not even the most remote resemblance to the BSO crap I see sold under the Schwinn name at WalMart and such.