I know of a british bloke in Guangdong much like that but I have not contacted him in well over a year now.

Yes you are right, there are many sell outs like you describe. Some will even defend the chinese ripping off western companies through dodgy business practices like happened with General to the USA and to france with their high speed rail tech. The USA should watch out, wait to see what the chinese and the russians are going to try to do together to the aviation industry, snakes in the grass, snakes in the grasss.........