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Interesting. Ironically the fake Rødes come from Shanghai, just like the real ones.
 
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As someone who has visited the Free Trade Zone in Shanghai, this was enough concern that I raised the issue with higher powers, but let me give the crux of this "situation" on why it triggered my reaction.
 
Interviews with the authorities there basically said "We can get your product into production within 10 days"... This brought a semi-gasp from everyone present as this is pretty much unheard of. The FTZ is set up to do manufacturing "tariff-free" where companies ship in raw supplies, manufacture, and export. The FTZ even provides not only manpower but engineering oversight to this production. The "cost" of this is that this engineering oversight has access to most (if not all) tech-specs and proprietary information for production... so when they leave work, they go provide the same oversight on a similar, if not identical product, in a factory outside the FTZ. There were no controls to prevent this, and at the time also the #2 counterfeiter in the world. Some of these counterfeits are, in fact, carbon copies of the actual products because of this, but is not clear how many realize they are "giving their IP away" utilizing these manufacturing methods.