To some extent I agree with you, but I don't think this is a good example. These types of "computers" are pretty simple electronics. All the complexity lives i

To some extent I agree with you, but I don't think this is a good example. These types of "computers" are pretty simple electronics. All the complexity lives inside the "System on chip" - the engineer then picks a few supporting chips and makes sure the signal routing is matched. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is based on a reference design from the SoC designer. In this case, the west basically already competes - this is pretty similar to the raspberry pi zero. There's plenty of Western designed SoCs - which is where the complexity and IP lie.