Well, heck yeah, they have clones of all kinds of vehicles, Toyota 4-runners, the Chevy Colorado, some small Chevy cars like the Spark, and a good portion of their motorcycles are based on 1970's Honda bikes. A clone is the best way to get around that 30% import tax on anything not made by a Chinese company. For an example, Dell computers are made here, boxed up and put in shipping containers, moved across the loading docks from "outgoing" to "incoming" and unloaded again. That way they get the "import tax". I sure wish we could get implement some of their trade practices...
The only thing I wonder/worry about is when they get to the point where they aren't copying to catch up, and start innovating. Not that I am really old enough to remember, but didn't everyone think those little crappy little cars and trucks the Japanese were building in the 70's would never compete with US built products?
Not that I think its right, but not having to "worry" about patents, or copyrights gives them a heck of an advantage to make the next big step in a lot of areas. Almost everything made here has a good portion of product "walking out the back door". Once that happens everyone and their brother has a chance to dissect it and try to "improve" on it. And forget about copying, there are even stories of factories being started back up on the weekend to produce a couple thousand Iphones, or a half a dozen cars "off the books".
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