yeah, there are a crap ton of lithium based devices made in china... my biggest suspect for that is the vape market.

its already a blackmarket industry.. i bet they dont care much about where how the batteries are made.

What data do you base that on?

It's xenophobia. Whenever Chinese anything is brought up someone has to bring up something unrelated to show how horrible china is.

Same thing happens with pollution per capita or any number of environmental metrics. People jump through insane mental hoops to paint China as far worse than the USA.

I think holding China to a greater standard than USA shows respect rather than disrespect for China.

Given the current US administration I don't see any respect. America wants a shining beacon on their tech and offerings while my continent Europe and others has to be painted in a worse light.

Has nothing to do with it but the US is learning...

"Trump administration moves to dismantle EPA’s science office" - https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-moves-to-dismantle-...