COPYCATS ARE COMING FOR CHINA’S HIT BRAND

 For years, Western companies complained about Chinese copycats. Now, copycats are coming for Chinese companies.

Starbucks’s Chinese rival, Luckin Coffee, fought a legal battle with a look-alike in Thailand that it says damages its brand.

Beverage franchise Heytea, which recently opened its first cheese tea store in New York, faced off against Singaporean doppelgänger Heetea.