It isn’t just the US. I saw an article about how an African country, maybe Uganda, was drowning in cheap Chineses clothes, that were so cheaply made that they didn’t last through the first wash and ended up in piles of trash. I understood exactly what they were talking about, anyone who shops at Costco knows. The cheap fabric shrinks, gets permanently wrinkled or gets tiny holes that makes it look like you were standing too close to a camp fire. Even socks and towels are prone to the holes. But still we buy them.
You get what you pay for.
Yes, Chinese is just crap. And China is at the center of the crapification of the West.