Mash (Shineray) XY 400

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Any distributor could get knocked out of the market by losing an IP lawsuit, that is a concern. Then the OEM can come in and pick up the pieces, clean up so to speak. Take over the distributor after it is forced into insolvency. The OEM’s in China are not directly setting up affiliated legal entities in foreign countries and selling what they know violates the designs of others, they are doing it by proxy and in that staying protected as China only claims to inforce IP rights, as in practice they do not.
Xinuan is actively directly setting up operations in Italy developing altered designs of that model, calling it a 440 and subsequently they removed all the Honda design elements, they replaced them with SWM elements.
The distributors are nothing more than networks to the consumer, they do not have any factory production, and they can be taken over, simply bought out. They would be easiest to buy if they are under duress, that being fending off a very costly legal battle over IP design rights. The bigger the network the better, the manufactures have to have distribution.