I don't know much about chinese culture and business practices, but I do know that they are far different from those in the west. Assuming the basic facts of the article are true, I wonder how this is going to work out for the chinese FOs in question.
On a side note, all the asian countries have been hiring expats and sending their own people overseas for training for many years. Are any of the asian airlines starting to do any initial training at home? I don't understand why they don't hire expat CFIs to train some local CFIs, and go from there, instead of sending so much money overseas.