[Retired Chemist]

This is hardly China’s fault. Either the parents are to blame for assembling the thing wrong, or the maker is to blame for designing it and/or writing the assembly instructions such that incorrect assembly is likely to occur.

Exactly

[dr huer]

I once got a PhD in experimental nuclear physics. Today, when it becomes necessary to assemble some piece of home hardware, I find the assembly instructions quite incomprehensible. I surmise that they were composed in Chinese by one Chinaman, and then translated into English, French, and German by various Chinese linguists. I have presently been able to get the things together after a struggle. Writing instruction books has become a lost art.