Honest reply from someone who does not know the answer is, probably not, ergo, the need for Steipp to gather a bunch of "low hanging fruit" to fatten LQMT's resume.
As usual nothing is clear about this .... I won't go into the litany of efforts LQMT made to manufacture on its' own but the only thing that came out of all that was a knife. Hardly a success albeit a piece of very low hanging fruit if you know what I mean.
In comes Li in 2016 providing a vehice to produce products via China. He then seemingly cuts the LQMT work force leading one to believe that he had the capicity to market and produce consumer and commercial products (remember that Hauck tried and failed as did others who have attended multiple fairs of some sort or other). And indeed if one is to believe that the material has succeeded in the Eastern hemisphere Li has sold it successfully.
If all of this and the rest of the things that have occurred since 2016 is true and makes sense why wouldn't Li and Chung (and those before him) expand sales in the Western part of the world ??
I'd spectulate there is a rat in the woodpile whom nobody can identiy .. its too easy to say CCP or Apple but then again most times the simple answer is the most likey to be correct. Now provided all this nonesensical is in broad range of correctness, my windmill rests upon an answer of WHY THE HELL THEY KEEP THIS COMPANY ALIVE ?
I continue to hope that the answer to that issue will come before I pass away, as in my very unkowledgale opinion, it is the foundation for we FOMO'ers holding and HOPING. Frankly, I wish they would just sell or merge but my wishes do not often come true.