Artisan Cutlery Classic Folding Knife

Is no one else noticing that the blade screw almost looks like a swastika at first glance?? 😅

I think it's beyond the need to wonder at - so long as we aren't being too precise with the word 'companies'. There are many Chinese approaches to that sort of enterprise. I've seen it estimated that China makes half the world's steel and sells their steel for 25% less than US and European firms charge. A certain amount of that is accounted for by scale, a certain amount by centralization, and quite a bit of it comes from government subsidies - like getting special rates from the electric company, which can mean millions a year when it comes to powering a factory. I think it might be best to say that they sell all their production whenever they can, even if it's total junk sometimes. The price you get and the quality you get seems to depend on your access to and the strength of your relationship with the manufacturer, who is someone that you and i don't get to just walk up to IRL, or their trusted agent who often has relationships to protect and is also uninterested in letting us come chat them up. We have a saying that 'three can keep a secret if two of them are dead'. The Chinese seem to have more of a 'Two can keep a secret if one of them is me and the other one is dead and buried in my basement so don't even ask, ' thing going on.