A little perspective from a traveling engineer...

Tutmos2 ... your order is a little out of order.
Japan, Korea/Taiwan, china, Malaysia

Remember, high tech companies w/ factories in the pacific rim make these factories produce to pretty high standards compared to other locally made items.

If we break down china manufacturing - there are spots of solid manufacturing.
example: glass. a majority of precision glass comes out of china.... including stuff made by Corning, New york.

glass made for DSLR has roots in China.

just a little different view.

Later,
_Mark