I talked to KTM people in 2006 during a bike expo back home (theirs and mine ).

At that time, they showed no interest in the Chinese market for various reasons.

unclear situation, rules and regulations for import, homologation, registration
difficult to provide quality service
uncertain to choose location(s) to be served
the market is too small to pay for necessary expat man power

they were not willing to leave all the above to locals

Also, to support individuals or team travel, was out of question for them.

More or less I believe they were - and probably still are - right

P.S. I know that ChinaV was joking