In the U. S. back in the early 20th c. when American manufactures were taking their place in the world market, there were sweatshops galore, horrible ghetto living conditions, no concern for workers, widespread ignorance.

China is not that many years from a peasant economy and the mistakes of Mao's successors, it has expanded to become the world's No. 1 manufacturer and its society is changing rapidly as a middle class grows.
The same is true in India, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia and other industrializing nations.

These new dragons in the world will evolve, probably more rapidly than the U. S. did, making many of the same mistakes on the way.

Refusing to buy their products only slows their modernization and cultural evolution; calls to boycott their products show ignorance of history and cultural evolution, and serve only to slow their progress in a rapidly changing world.

If the U. S. cannot change to succeed in a globalizing world, it will be a loser. Many of the posters here are calling for stagnation although they don't realize it.
The first lesson to be learned by the U. S. is that it cannot dominate the world. It may try to be a model of western culture, but it cannot force the rest of the world to fit its mold.