That´s more a very friendly and optimistic description for a situation with a chinese coercive partner. Where would China be today if they hadn`t establish the Partnership Enterprise Law in 2007? We shouldn`t forget that China is since 2015 on its Made in China 2025 Plan. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

It`s right that they did a lot of copy&paste when they startet. But today China is very closed to the technological frontier of next generation telecommunication technologies, big data and supercomputers.(It´s the single country in the world with a realtime population monitoring system which is actual transfered into a Social Credit System!) High-speed railways, aviation, electronics, machinery are big fields of chinese national investments and export/sales prove their technology capability.

Yes, China was a fast follower but they have allready shown that they create innovations. In near future they will become a global leader in technology and innovation. It´s just a question of time how fast they will do and how helpfull the pandemic could contribute. By the past 15 years of industrial and economical chinese developement you can assume that they have an opportunity to run the clock faster as western countries will do.

I also think that chinese motorcycles will have a chance to bite into foreign markets. BMW and KTM are aware of this and they only share knowhow about old technology and smaller engines with China. But chinese motorcycle brands will try to conquer western markets like they are still doing with SSVs and ATVs e.g. in Austria and Eastern Europe.

And this will work as in the past: Bring a product to the market to target price sensitive buyers and attack competitors. Consumers will choose a lookalike design and agree to little disadvantanges in terms of quality because of personal savings. For me just a question time and future ecomomical developement of western countries. And a strong motivation to me to buy less as posssible chinese products.

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