Yep, ( not new news for some ) Giant has the largest bike factory in China, they also make bikes for Trek also ... Funny/sad that, everyone ( brand snobs ) loves their Specalized and Treks... and Giant has a hard time selling their own branded bikes .

Anyway... back to the spokes, lots of options to "fix" your problem. Usually "pricepoint" bikes have single wall rims with low spoke counts... so, you can upgrade the rim ( rim swap takes 15min ) to a double wall one ... repl all the spokes
( longer than 30 min ) to quality ones ( dt comes to mind )... if all else fails J&b has a wheel for 75$ that usees 12ga spokes. Ask your LBS which wil be the best option for you. ( ex: if you have a single wall rim, it might not be worth the 32$ in spokes to upgrade the spokes, but rather do a doublewall rim. )