guys, give the chinese some slack please...
with this attitude by "the incumbents", no wonder china is overtaking everybody on the right lane...
china is a huge GA market in itself, just about to be tapped. also china is maturing from just learning to copy everything to actually coming up with innovations by themselves. yuneec and others come to mind. and more and more they have the economic power to purchase whatever technology they do not yet master. that's capitalism at its best, so no double standards please.
it may make more sense for them vs. the saturated market in the u.s. and greedy investment culture where a product behind counts less than vapour of double digit growth.
and they are busy developing a new engine and not suing each others butt over some kind of duh patent...
i see it as an encouraging sign that somebody believes in progress and a future of GA! they certainly didn't buy to let it go bust.
don't get me wrong, i'm not a cheerleader nor a fan of chinese policies, but fear and denial is not the answer.
rgds bernie
(from the high cost / high quality nation of switzerland ;-)