'barely functional' isn't fraud. And in most cases the cheapest made in china product is barely functional.

It's only deliberately selling nonfunctional products that would meet the definition of fraud.

Plus selling barely functional products under a DONGJOY etc brand isn’t fraud, only trying to sell a counterfeit Prada bag under the Prada brand is (and only in Western countries at that)

No matter what it says on the tag , if it looks like Prada but it isn't from Prada, someone is getting frauded

What do you mean?

For example, if I knowingly buy a knock-off, nobody is being defrauded.

(You can claim that Prada as a company gets damaged in the process somehow, that's probably fair. But it's not fraud.)

There are whole industries where it's unacceptable to ship 'barely functional' products -- aeronautics for instance.

We should be striving to expand this to more industries not the other way around.

Different standards for different contexts.

Not everyone shares your preferences.

If you're selling something to someone who has a reasonable expectation that it is of a specific level of quality and it's not and you don't tell them that, it's fraud.

Whether you're angry about this depends on which culture you subscribe to.

I dunno, I think just about any person would be angry if the Chinese-made electric clippers they just plugged into a wall outlet exploded in their hand.