It's not uncommon for them to aquire a few units of whatever it is they want to copy and then start the reproduction process. Happens all the time.
They copy high end remote control helicopters except theirs are usually crap.
By the time the buyer figures out what they have it cost more to ship it back and deal with it than it does to just
throw in the trash.
America has done and is doing this to itself.
We want it right now and as cheap as we can get it.
We'll
buy from overseas copy firms and then bit** about the quality, economy and job markets.
Drive through some of the steel towns in the US. They're practically ghost towns of rot and decay. Instead of doing something to break the cycle we complain about the prices of steel made products by US companies. Then we
buy foreign.
I'm just glad that I'm old enough so that I'll probably be dead before this country falls apart completely.
We're ruining our own paradise that so many people have fought and died to provide.
Shame, Shame, Shame......
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