so they have to put up with quality issues that ordinary Chinese have to deal with.
In reality, if there is no secret influence and assistance of the Chinese leadership in the supply chains, the ordinary Chinese consumer is much better protected than wholesale buyers from the Russian Federation. Just because can bring a legal claim against the seller or the Chinese manufacturer. This is a huge difference from the gray market bypassing the sanctions, where the buyer has no rights, and the supplier risks being punished if this pops up in the official public field at the press level.
By the way, in the Russian Federation for almost all the years of Yeltsin and Putin's rule, ordinary consumers were not protected in any way from the arbitrariness of Western manufacturers if the seller disappeared (as a legal entity without an assignee) for a simple reason - despite the harshness of the conditions of consumer legislation (extremely poorly thought out, for many key issues, the practical resolution of conflicts from the initially weaker side - the consumer, in relation to the sellers or the manufacturer), the authorities turned a blind eye to the voluntary refusal to open official (legally accredited by the authorities) representative offices of Western and Asian manufacturers of household appliances and electronics. In the event of the disappearance of the legal entity of the seller, the consumer in the Russian Federation, despite the opportunity to bring a claim against the manufacturer, could not do this in practice, because. almost all manufacturers were outside the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, and litigation in a foreign state under the laws of this country became practically meaningless in terms of the resource expended. And the authorities of the Russian Federation, even when this market was growing in the 2000s and all foreign manufacturers were extremely interested in sales on the Russian market, did nothing to force foreign manufacturers to open official representative offices against which an ordinary consumer could easily sue for consumer legislation of the Russian Federation.
This approach alone clearly spoke of total corruption in power on the part of foreign manufacturers and that the lobbies of large distributors were against the opening of such representative offices (and most of their owners were deputies or officials), because. if they were discovered, foreign manufacturers lost interest in working with them. because could eliminate the extra speculative markup from the price of the product by eliminating unnecessary intermediate links and selling the product directly to retail buyers both in the US and the EU from their websites.
At the same time, when the authorities of the Russian Federation needed to drastically limit the influence of social networks on the population, they immediately cynically announced the demand for compulsory accreditation of the owners of Western social networks in the Russian Federation. Duplicity is evident in the same issues where the interests of the ruling strata were involved. In the first case, it was beneficial for the ruling stratum to ignore the lack of accredited representative offices of foreign manufacturers (because most of the imports went through companies owned by government officials and they made money on it), and in the second they lost the competition for the "minds" of the population to Western networks, so they they were required to be accredited. And some of the Western companies beneficiaries of social networks have fulfilled this condition - since propaganda is extremely important.
Opportunities of consumers in the US and the EU (Japan, Korea, etc.) compare favorably in this matter with ordinary consumers in the Russian Federation and other developing countries - they can file claims (including class actions) directly with manufacturers, so manufacturers, knowing about the risks, try to behave with them many times more civilized than with consumers in developing countries (here's double moral standards in practice). As a result, in the USA, for example, there is a widespread practice of selling goods (including via the Internet) with the right to return the goods free of charge within 1 month, without explaining the reason for the return and the need to prove the existence of a defect, I.e. goods of proper quality from the point of view of the manufacturer and the seller. In most cases, taking on the costs (to restore the packaging and presentation, while again sold already with a marker – as “refurbished”, not new!). Which allows ordinary consumer to calmly and civilly choose a truly high-quality product among heaps of frank garbage on the market, in unlike unfortunate consumers in developing countries, with completely corrupt authorities acting in the interests of large foreign corporations, not their own citizens. And this is another practical example of why citizens of developing countries at the household level hate residents of developed countries, although they themselves are to blame for what happened because of their stupidity, laziness, courage and, ultimately, the lack of the necessary level of civic engagement and understanding of the necessary changes in society and the state. This is how anti-people regimes gradually arise, where the majority of the population decides that "my hut is on the edge", I.e. I don't give a damn about my civic responsibilities to support civil society and counter the authoritarian habits of officials and corruption among them and immoral businessmen.
From the streams of mental ignorance and indifference of the majority of ordinary inhabitants in a particular country, a river of social vices gradually flows, which takes society to the beginning of an authoritarian regime, and then, on the growth of fear and cowardice of the majority of the population, already into a totalitarian ocean of madness, which leads to the collapse of the state and society Sooner or later. And so it has always been in the history of mankind. The sleep of the mind of the majority of the population led to its loss in the global competition for a better life on planet Earth. The only thing that has changed since then is that now some of the totalitarian states, even if they die, can significantly spoil the ecology of the planet and kill billions. But sometime in the future, if there is a further increase in progress, even a small group of individuals will be able to destroy the planet with their private efforts, if for some reason they decide that human civilization is no longer worthy of survival ....