You never know.
They can always find a stategy to put it on a difficult market and on the other hand I don't think they just come out with a new 1 GHz scope and miss the western market.
Time will tell.
There is also one (weird) question (- or is it weird). How important is the "western market" :/
The imagination of what China is, is in many cases constantly out of date in many westerners mind. It has changed and is changing faster than most people can update their thinking…
The demand for electronics testing equipment in China is (was) growing perhaps like a "to the moon" trend... how about western markets.
I know what you say but "China to China" concept maybe is not so future proof as it want to be. Even China is not sure about.
Maybe the corect term instead the "western market" which is indeed somewhat perished, would be "global market". And this is for sure a target for China and subsequently for Siglent. But time will tell.
Coming back to Martin concern, the internal Chinese market is not ermetic. I can order from grey market a scope in discussion. Asking Siglent about that, they don't forbid but they said that from service and support perpective is not advisable ...