i4cp's Judy London wrote this week's TrendWatcher, which focuses on Chinese quality concerns and how those will impact business decisions for U.S. and international companies. Specifically:

• Do China's quality lapses affect growth strategies for other businesses?
• Is China really to blame for design defects that originated outside of the country and the outsourcing companies?
• In actuality, how confident are businesses in Chinese outsourcing?
• What are companies who continue to outsource doing to counteract or avoid potential quality risks?

Read the full Chinese quality survey release here.