I think you missed my point. The monopolization of ideas, Intellectual Property Rights as understood in western civilization, is viewed as immoral. There is a firm belief that intellectual property belongs to everyone, not just the one who initially created it. They don't view it as stealing anything because there is no physical theft. The idea of intellectual theft is antithesis to their beliefs. You can't steal what is believed to belong to everyone. They are creating something, a copy of something, but they are still creating a physical copy of something and thus don't understand what the problem is. The ideas of intellectual property are starting to spread in some circles in China, but it isn't mainstream.
The company is making non-Gw stuff as well. Historicals are a rather large market and arguably those sales lost hurt those smaller boutique companies a great deal more than GW's potential lost sales. I'm not saying I don't disagree with the current global status quo with recasters, because it is a problem and not sustainable for companies in the West. What I'm trying to do is create an understanding for why it is this behavior is so prevalent in Eastern cultures and why those governments and peoples don't see a reason to convert their beliefs to western ones. What is happening is the friction of different cultural groups brought on by globalization. I think it would be far more productive to try and find a common ground by which both cultural groups could find compromise regarding intellectual property, but that is far beyond the means of those within a niche hobby community. The best option for those of us in the western world to address the current incompatibilities of eastern and western cultures & economies is to not participate in those sales. I won't buy, support, or inform others where and how to do business with the recasters in China or Russia because it hurts those who make products within the rules of the western world, but I'm not going to demonize the recasters for having fundamentally different belief systems, economic systems, governments, and laws either.