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Mr, how do you know that chinese restaurants are NOT importing food from China?  Many of them do use ingredients from China, such as soy sauce.  Many of them buy those from Chinese supermarkets which has Chinese stuffs shipped oversea to USA.

In general, Chinese food, though tasty, are often unhealthy.

I rarely eat Chiinese food.   

The chances are lower, because so many of the dishes themselves are not Chinese, they are American food like fried chicken dressed up with sweets.
If you were eating bright red eggs, you might be getting something that had to be imported from the mother country, but chicken and fish are likely from the local Sysco. 

I took a friend of mine from  Beijing to his first Chinese restaurant here in America, and after looking at the General Tso's etc., he said he had never seen any of that stuff in his life.
Also factor in that not all of the Asian people running restaurants here are even from China.