I found this in a recent magazine:

Three people (on average) are harmed in the production of the typical HDMI cable in a typical Chinese factory. Since factory owners get government kickbacks per injury as part of their overpopulation initiative, any company that chooses to use Chinese factories with bad worker safety records has a competitive advantage over those who do not.

Ok, yeah. I totally made that up.

But seriously, Mark, any of us are going to come off as hypocrites if we care more about the source of our digital interconnects than we care about the source of our televisions, halloween costumes, toys, shoes, shirts, etc...

Welcome to the world economy.