Europe wakes up to China steel dumping.

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Originally Posted by nailer

A lot of the steel wire in the Brooklyn Bridge's main cables is not up to Roebling's specification.

Perhaps, but it has held up 130 years. There are numerous documented instances of Chinese counterfeit high-strength fasteners getting into the supply chain and failing in subsequent use.

Here's an article revealing how and when DoD caught up with this as numerous counterfeit high-strength bolts were failing in Army tanks and causing their tracks to fall off. Not a good thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-700e9620fb98/

After that, they were found all over the worldwide nuclear industry with critical parts of nuclear reactors held together by them.

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publica...e_1169_prn.pdf