Story from an airline pilot who regularly flew to Beijing and visited a mall that was primarily focused on air crews shopping there. Lots of fraudulently unbran

Story from an airline pilot who regularly flew to Beijing and visited a mall that was primarily focused on air crews shopping there. Lots of fraudulently unbranded versions of major brands being sold to these crews at extraordinary discount. Every so often all of the stores would close their store and one would become ‘tribute’. They’d put a table full of whatever product they sold out in front of the closed store and the police would come in, confiscate the limited quantity offered and leave. The stores would reopen a few minutes later and everything would go on as before. The Chinese government touted these ‘raids’ as evidence they were being tough on infringement. Hilarious theatre; just like all fraud and enforcement of it, even here in the US. The government targets a few big names who got caught because of their hubris, sends them to jail, and the world continues doing the same thing.