Quote Originally Posted by bigdamo View Post
ZMC is right. Here is a case study for you. A small lavender farm in small town Tasmania is producing lavender products and set up an office in HK to sell into the China market. One of his products Bobbi the lavender bear (filled with lavender and wheat) became an overnight sensation when a Chinese movie star came to tassie and his lavender farm and was given Bobbi the bear she promptly posted it on her weibo blog and it went viral overnight sales of these bears became a must have and guess what people/companies started to copy and sell them the owner of the small lavender farm started mouthing off he's going to sue all companies copying his Bobbi the bear. Bang the Chinese government banned all lavender products being imported into China. Xinjiang has one of the biggest lavender farms in the world. Funny that. Case study 2. Australia is one of the largest producers of infant milk products selling into China due to you know what. Someone must of pissed off someone in China because last week China just clamped down on all infant powered milk products entering China and now there is only four Australian companies that have accreditation to sell there product into China. There were hundreds a month ago.
Exactly right. If you sell in China you must expect for your designs and ideas to be taken, you must expect for certain products to be banned, you must leave growth potential for Chinese businesses to take at least half the market, you must not complain. If you don't accept that then you'll just be banned outright, that's just how it works.