Stridaforum.com has a thread on this subject. It features a letter from Mark Sanders of MAS Design, the inventor and designer of the Strida, on the issue of the Chinese fakes:
http://www.stridaforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=413
Sanders sold all IP rights to the Strida to Ming Cycles of Taiwan some time ago. Mainland Chinese pirates are now ripping off the Taiwanese. This is so wrong.