Not according to my experiences. Most of my tooling is high end and the company I work for lets us order from brands of our choice, which lead to a fairly broad

Not according to my experiences. Most of my tooling is high end and the company I work for lets us order from brands of our choice, which lead to a fairly broad range of competing products across the workbenches here. I have never seen even once a case where a chinese high end product surpasses or even comes close to its japanese counterpart.