If I can find a US made item I will happily pay a little more for it. If no US made alternative I like to look for Made in Taiwan or Made in India
I used to really despise Harbor Fright, but hell, their cheap *expletive deleted*ss China made crap is likely as not made in the same same factory as the name brand Made in China crap anymore.
A big part of off-shoring manufacturing was to save money, but also to invest in allies' industrial capacity. Americans have known how to smelt wrenches on industrial scale for 50+ years after WWII. Sharing that skill with Taiwan and South Korea allowed skilled US labor to work on other things, and build a new industrial base in countries close to communist sway so they can see how skill and expertise are not communal assets.
I have a set of Taiwanese "Gearwrench" brand wrenches that I love. They're fantastic. Strong, precise, durable.
I've also broken a HF 10mm wrench. Bubbled voids in the handle where it cracked. Inferior chinese-make.
I'm with a lot of you where I try my damnedest to avoid buying Chinese. Sadly, I just purchased a Chinese lens for my new digital camera. It's a $1000 lens, 70-350mm with image stabilization built in, Sony's G-series telephoto. And it really is a premium piece of glass. My other 3 lenses are made in Thailand and Japan, and I did look over the place of manufacture of the other two competitors to this telephoto and they were made in Vietnam and Japan, respectively. Had no idea that Sony would make a G-series lens in China and considering the two kit lenses I had weren't made there I figured there was no way this higher end one would be. But evidently there are some good things that are made in China, even if we don't want to support their economy or world view.