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My Chinese friends also find theft of intellectual property to be appalling and beneath the dignity of Chinese Culture. They believe that it stunts the growth of Chinese society because it destroys incentives to design, engineer, and develop innovative products and ideas. There has to be legitimate rewards to invest and take risks associated with innovation.

With one car, Brilliance ripped off the new BMW X1, stole the name from Audi, and ripped off the M-Sport Wheels of the F10. They also offended Mercedes Benz because they did not steal their stuff.

I commend BMW leadership for standing up to their so called joint venture partner. If nothing else their partner's blatant theft of BMW intellectual property, exposes their intentions and utter disregard for the established concept of intellectual property. The actions of Brilliance is certainly less than brilliant.