Every time, it bends, or breaks when I’m trying to do a simple job with it

That does not mean Chineese tools can't be good. That only means that managers of homedepots you bought Chineese crap ordered crap from China.

It's not hard to find high quality tools on aliexpress, f.e. avoiding that bean counting managers who don't even understand anything about tools or quality. Just don't serarch for cheapest option, look for highest rated things with large number of comments. Look at customer provided photos and so on.

China is able to use slave labour and pay non living wages to workers to produce cheaper goods, and its somehow cheaper to ship raw material over the ocean in boats that get 1 foot to 5 gallons of fuel oil for gas mileage.

No, that's not how that work now. Chineese do not work for the bowl of rice anymore. They just vary componetns and assembly quality to satisfy price request. Obviously, western managers ordering stuff in China always serach lowest price. Chineese will not tell a word about that. They'll just made product from garbage. If customer want cheap, he will get cheap. If you want quality - talk with Chineese about quality, not about fucking price, and that's all.

Sanctions don’t work well enough.

IDK, but for Russia they work perfectly. Western sanctions is the best thing that happened with Russian economy during all capitalistic existence since USSR fall.

If you are not aware, before 2014 the main goal of Russian economy was maintaining RUB/USD rate. It is literally in the law about Russian central bank. More Western sanctions was introduced since then, less importance that goal had for real sector of economy. Today hardly anybody except CB care about RUB/USD. And CBRF today is the only obstacle for even higher Russian economy grow. Manufacturers become more important than importers. And since question of RUB/USD rate become irrelevant, other questions rised before manufacturers, including quality and other things.

I anticipate sanctions not because they do some harm, but because it is not how international trade should be organized.

However, I don't know what mechanism should be introduced into world trade to make questions of quality, reliability and all that stuff more important than plain profit.

As you could notice, nowdays profits, that theoretically should drive economy, have no any connection with quality, reliability and longevity of goods. May be in the past, manufacturer with higher quality of product got higher profits, because people prefer quality products. But today, profits depend only on fucking marketing and/or even worse - on lower quality of the product, forcing customer to buy same shit again and again.

Until this drawback of capitalism is resolved, world economy is doomed.

The only workable solution that will have the required effect is mass death and destruction of manufacturing in china.

To be at least theoretically able to do that, West have to reindustrialize itself, and not just reindustrialize, but build another economy, driven by quality, not by profits. Serioulsy, all (and I mean really all, without exception) western weaponry is total crap on the battlefield. It is not weapons made for the battle. It is a crap made for showroom with insane price. West, with such crap, have no single chance against China.

If you need kind of violent solution, I could propose extermination of all that fucking managers who care only about money, price and their bonuses. All Western system of reselling should be totaly exterminated. Every single business school where profit put over quality, reliability and longevity should be leveled. Every single shop owner, who will think about ordering crap for the sake of saving few cents should be heavily fined. And so on. And when it will be done, China will not be a problem for the nation economy.

China really not very interested in Western market anymore, if you are not aware. West is already satuated market for them, with miserable 500M customers, who already full with Chineese goods. China is much more interested in African, Middle East and Latin America markets. They are much larger and is far from saturation. The only problem is that all those billions of customers are not wealthy enough. So China rush to noticeably rise the income of that nations. That is why you see all that China investments all over the world. Chineese making customers for themselves. With rising income in third world, China will be able to sell crap first, then third-world will began to buy better, more expensive goods to replace crap, then even better goods and so on. West is absolutely nothing comparing with that.

And West have absolutely nothing to offer for China and the world. China is not interested in fiat, financial services or LGBTXYZ+ crap. And this is a good opportunity for the West to break its damned liberal system and become useful member of world trade. From history we know that the West had something to offer to the world - inventions, engineering, manufacturing culture. But today it exectly things that Western elites thoroughly destroy with insane rate with all their DEI, profit-driven capitalism, marketing idiocy and so on.

It's not China destroying West. It is Western elites who do that and Western version of capitalism where profit and financial games is more important than making real, useful and high-quality goods.

Every time, it bends, or breaks when I’m trying to do a simple job with it

That does not mean Chineese tools can't be good. That only means that managers of homedepots you bought Chineese crap ordered crap from China.

It's not hard to find high quality tools on aliexpress, f.e. avoiding that bean counting managers who don't even understand anything about tools or quality. Just don't serarch for cheapest option, look for highest rated things with large number of comments. Look at customer provided photos and so on.

China is able to use slave labour and pay non living wages to workers to produce cheaper goods, and its somehow cheaper to ship raw material over the ocean in boats that get 1 foot to 5 gallons of fuel oil for gas mileage.

No, that's not how that work now. Chineese do not work for the bowl of rice anymore. They just vary componetns and assembly quality to satisfy price request. Obviously, western managers ordering stuff in China always serach lowest price. Chineese will not tell a word about that. They'll just made product from garbage. If customer want cheap, he will get cheap. If you want quality - talk with Chineese about quality, not about fucking price, and that's all.

Sanctions don’t work well enough.

IDK, but for Russia they work perfectly. Western sanctions is the best thing that happened with Russian economy during all capitalistic existence since USSR fall.

If you are not aware, before 2014 the main goal of Russian economy was maintaining RUB/USD rate. It is literally in the law about Russian central bank. More Western sanctions was introduced since then, less importance that goal had for real sector of economy. Today hardly anybody except CB care about RUB/USD. And CBRF today is the only obstacle for even higher Russian economy grow. Manufacturers become more important than importers. And since question of RUB/USD rate become irrelevant, other questions rised before manufacturers, including quality and other things.

I anticipate sanctions not because they do some harm, but because it is not how international trade should be organized.

However, I don't know what mechanism should be introduced into world trade to make questions of quality, reliability and all that stuff more important than plain profit.

As you could notice, nowdays profits, that theoretically should drive economy, have no any connection with quality, reliability and longevity of goods. May be in the past, manufacturer with higher quality of product got higher profits, because people prefer quality products. But today, profits depend only on fucking marketing and/or even worse - on lower quality of the product, forcing customer to buy same shit again and again.

Until this drawback of capitalism is resolved, world economy is doomed.

The only workable solution that will have the required effect is mass death and destruction of manufacturing in china.

To be at least theoretically able to do that, West have to reindustrialize itself, and not just reindustrialize, but build another economy, driven by quality, not by profits. Serioulsy, all (and I mean really all, without exception) western weaponry is total crap on the battlefield. It is not weapons made for the battle. It is a crap made for showroom with insane price. West, with such crap, have no single chance against China.

If you need kind of violent solution, I could propose extermination of all that fucking managers who care only about money, price and their bonuses. All Western system of reselling should be totaly exterminated. Every single business school where profit put over quality, reliability and longevity should be leveled. Every single shop owner, who will think about ordering crap for the sake of saving few cents should be heavily fined. And so on. And then it will be done, China will not be a problem for the nation economy.

China really not very interested in Western market anymore, if you are not aware. West is already satuated market for them, with miserable 500M customers, who already full with Chineese goods. China is much more interested in African, Middle East and Latin America markets. They are much larger and is far from saturation. The only problem is that all those billions of customers are not wealthy enough. So China rush to noticeably rise the income of that nations. That is why you see all that China investments all over the world. Chineese making customers for themselves. With rising income in third world, China will be able to sell crap first, then third-world will began to buy better, more expensive goods to replace crap, then even better goods and so on. West is absolutely nothing comparing with that.

And West have absolutely nothing to offer for China and the world. China is not interested in fiat, financial services or LGBTXYZ+ crap. And this is a good opportunity for the West to break its damned liberal system and become useful member of world trade. From history we know that the West had something to offer to the world - inventions, engineering, manufacturing culture. But today it exectly things that Western elites thoroughly destroy with insane rate with all their DEI, profit-driven capitalism, marketing idiocy and so on.

It's not China destroying West. It is Western elites who do that and Western version of capitalism where profit and financial games is more important than making real, useful and high-quality goods.