You sure make China sound as if they only produce junk... China manufactures objects of various quality levels. If you want stuff comparable to things made here, you'll have to pay a bit more than the cheapest level stuff available in China...and even then it's still much cheaper than equivalent products here. More and more of the manufacturing are automated and done by robots, so it's not like you've an uneducated person building that carbon fork.

I switched out my CrMo fork with a full carbon fork, and it was more than a pound lighter...and it absorbs vibrations much better than the CrMo fork...