Kwurk yes. Sure. Still those are just a small number of people compared to the rest of the world. And the rest of the world doesn't use funny glyphs, has proper copyright law, reliable judicative and so on.

Maybe one of the future devices even will also target China, but for a new and unprooven device, also addressing China not is worth the risk and money. The Maemo 5 software is complex, new and unproven. Even without supporting China it's a huge risk and a big adventure for everyone involved. Even without addressing China there are way too many bugs in the software still. Situation for first Maemo 6 devices won't be much different too. For such risky projects like Maemo adding China to the table really is one risk too much. China really isn't rich enough to justify that risk, I believe. Please do a little reality check and look at the GDP of China or even Hong Kong. When considering that numbers even small countries like the Netherlands or Switzerland are a better markets than China for expensive and highly experimental smart phones.

Well, or to summarize it: Do one thing, but do it proper.
Seems China doesn't fit into that "one thing" for Maemo managment yet.