This isn't exactly the great deal for Microsoft products that consumers are looking for:
Software pirates in Malaysia are selling copies of an early version of the next generation of Microsoft Corp.'s flagship Windows operating system, company officials said Tuesday....According to the Business Software Alliance, a U.S.-based industry group, 68 percent of new software used in Malaysia last year was illegal—higher than the global average software piracy rate of 39 percent, but lower than that of some Asian countries, such as China. He didn't elaborate.
He doesn't need to. Commerce with countries struggling with or otherwise completely lacking the rule of law - and thus without robust intellectual property rights - barely qualifies as trade. It's more like controlled theft. The Chinese are oldhands at literally copying foreign designs, from aesthetics to function, and then flooding markets with product clones through willing third parties. Their "work" in the audio industry is so efficient it'd be admirable if it weren't, forgive the pun, patently unethical.
Free trade is impeccable in theory. In order for it to work in practice, an even legal playing field is incumbent on all parties.