The best way to deal with this is to pool resources and get chips directly from a fab, ALA ASICMiner. Labcoin's costs from the fab are about $2/Gh/s. They have their first 130nm chip off at the fab, and are working on a 65nm design. I think their shares are a good bet. ActiveMining and BTCGarden are doing the same.
Too bad the PRC is an unfree nation of robotic slave insects not allowed to own the means of self-defense, a basic human right.
If some thug showed up at an American's house intending to threaten/extort their brilliant entrepreneurial child, they would either be killed on the spot or taken somewhere very unpleasant to extract the names of who sent them.
From now on, I only invest in ASIC firms located in countries that respect/protect the right to keep and bear arms.
WTF are you talking about?