I hope I'm very, very wrong in my suspicions that those hustling Chinese dollars are funding attacks against us. Some turn signal switches or AMD panels aren't worth that to me, personally.
It's a valid concern, but at the same time you can't untangle everything. I know the North Korean government has all kinds of schemes to make money, including selling drugs and weapons (not to mention simply printing fake dollars). I don't think the Chinese government is doing the same with carburetors, turn signal switches, and sheet metal. I imagine a small-ish company making these things, just like you would still have in the US if they had lower labor and operating costs. Most likely these companies don't even pay their taxes to the Chinese government, if they can get away with it. :-)
The way I see it, by helping regular Chinese people make a good living, I'm reducing the chances that they will support a government that might want to attack us. Not that I wouldn't happily buy American...
There, now this thread is officially off the rails.