I had a long-a$$ reply here, but you're right - let's not bother. You seem to be stuck on some ideas that are axiomatic to you, but are factually incorrect. Your defective Chinese Mac is just as Chinese (and definitely non-western) as any other 'good' Mac, as it the same for virtually every computer, phone or other consumer electronics product on the planet. The notion that Asian origins is somehow an indicator of poor manufacturing quality is a misconception that's surprisingly stubborn. The world of consumer electronics has been dominated for about 3 decades by South Korea, China, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam to name a few, and more recently by other BRICs. They make a lot of $1 trinkets of horrible quality, as well as the newest iPhone that withstands years of daily abuse in the hands of a Western teenager.
The pertinence to the topic of camera repairs is indeed zero - it doesn't matter a hoot where a camera was originally made in terms of the complexity and success rate in performing repairs. And the thought that there's somehow a significant supply of factory-reject defective assemblies sold as spares is as random (and as false) as the idea that your Mac's LCD died because there's dirt on a connector as a result of the Chinese supposedly being unable to run a tidy shop (it would have been kind of funny if not for the undertone of this misconception, which is a much uglier than a broken computer screen).
The only thing you do make me wonder is why people, if they don't know or understand something, they sometimes take a wild and inherently uninformed guess at it and then proceed to be adamant in being right. That one will always puzzle me.
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