60’s and 70’s had the term junky japanese as their products tended to be crappy. china was not even on the radar outside of ping pong diplomacy from nixon.
That’s who I saw things growing up in the 70s-80s. China was full of starving farmers and not much else. And yeah, Japanese products went from having a well-deserved bad rap to Americans going, “Holy shit! They’re out competing us! Make it stop!” (In cars and electronics anyway.)
60’s and 70’s had the term junky japanese as their products tended to be crappy. china was not even on the radar outside of ping pong diplomacy from nixon.
That’s who I saw things growing up in the 70s-80s. China was full of starving farmers and not much else. And yeah, Japanese products went from having a well-deserved bad rap to Americans going, “Holy shit! They’re out competing us! Make it stop!” (In cars and electronics anyway.)