First rule: "People do things for their reasons, not ours." Since corporations are now legally "people" this can often apply to them as well.
Chinese manufacturers can be the best or the worst but that, again, depends on the people involved in such deals.
Some posts herein are thoughtful speculation. Some are stereotypical lambasts that serve little purpose. PE can function as a greed machine or occasionally as something quite the opposite.
Some people like Sam and his core group have been known to flush everything they've built down the loo for "take it and run money" while many others in the same situation refuse to play unless they achieve contractual assurances and protections for both their employees and their visionary concepts or principles.
My gut feeling is that Sam is much more the latter type. But none of us really knows anything yet.
Just as with buyouts/mergers like Boeing/McDonnell Douglas or United/Continental, it can take several years to begin to fathom the underlying truths of such issues and the people involved and the accompanying secret handshakes and side deals or manipulations that were positive or negative or were honored or betrayed and often it is a power play by others who subsequently capitalize on inherent weakness and FUBAR everything or salvage failure at the last minute.
Again, at this moment, I look forward to seeing what kind of deal Sam tried to construct and where it goes.