Great post.
One thing I need to point out is that people claiming China has bad powders / products and that is why it is so cheap are a bit clueless. China has excellent quality control on their shit. Literally. Because they know if they start dicking around and sending bad shit out, people are just going to start paying a little more and ordering from India.
That's true. But for the sake of honesty, it's said the steroids are made by chemical companies instead of above ground pharma companies since steroid manufacturing is officially illegal. But they can still make quality raw drugs. The growth hormone is quality nowadays and it's my understanding it's also underground so to speak. The FBI actually worked out a deal with the Chinese like a decade ago to curb the brand name pharma Jintropin sales because they were flooding the market with high quality shit, even Hollywood celebs like Stallone were using it. So now my understanding is that it's simply sold out the back door in unlabeled vials. But since QC testing is now available, who cares.
And yeah China doesn't want to lose the market. Appears as though some percentage of raws now do come from India.
In recent years there have been quite a bit of painful test enanthate coming from China. Turns out, I assume it's true, when manufacturing enanthate the synthesis is quicker and cheaper if you skip or change a step but it leaves a tiny bit of some type of acid. It works well but for example my training parner had bought painful enanthate which he couldn't use so he returned the 20 vials to the dealer who switched it out to some other test product. The test is still "real" but there are some admitted kinks in the market due to the nature of it.