If fake Apple stores sells real Apple products, that would seem to suggest a diversion within the Apple factory. And you would think that would have to involve management corruption at a pretty high level. There was also news recently about a fake Ikea store, although they didn’t seem to have real Ikea merchandise.
To do business in China you must have a Chinese partner with 50% ownership in the partnership. Is anyone even Apple surprised when they turn their technology over to the Chinese partner that he turns it over to the Government.
Maybe someone can confirm this story: we were told to stay out of China if we didn’t want our products knocked off. A US trade rep told us GM had just finished a plant in China and 10 miles away was a completely identical plant bolt for bolt built by the Chinese.