the Chinese are renowned for substituting goods. I'm keenly aware as a defense contractor employee, of just how much they will, and will continue to attack our cyber and otherwise defenses in search of information.
At my work, we're starting to go through our licensing options for our software. My coworker said something to the effect of, "In North America, a software lock should be sufficient. In Asia, we'll have to require a dongle." Then we did a webinar with a German company that sells software licensing solutions and I'll be damned if they didn't say the same thing.