They don't need to break down as fast as they do. The Chinese junk we have been forced to buy barely works at all. I've bought things that fell apart within a week, or didn't work the first time I tried them. I bought a Panasonic microwave a while back, it quit after a few days. There is no pride in workmanship in this Chinese junk, they use the cheapest possible materials, and they have no testing standards. Even the screws and bolts in Chinese crap are bad -- the actual steel is soft or brittle, and the slots for screwdrivers are off-center on the heads of screws. How do you even fuck up this badly? I once bought a set of hacksaw blades made in Asia -- the first time I tried to use one, it shattered like glass. Another time, I bought a set of hacksaw blades from the mysterious far East, and the first time I tried to use one, all the teeth were knocked off. I'm not kidding, these things actually happened. I bought a spark plug extractor once that was made of aluminum, and it worked for one spark plug -- then it was rounded and finished. I bought a bicyclel pump and it wouldn't pump -- brand new, and it wouldn't put air into a tire. It looked like a bicycle pump on the outside, but it was really a lawn ornament. The trouble is, we don't know what product is quality and what product is total crap until after we buy it and use it. And 90% of what comes out of China is total crap.