RE: AVOID THIS ENGINE AT ALL COST!!!!!
Jobs aren't being sent overseas to build Japanese and Chinese engines. I bet you won't find a single American in the plants. Novels are designed by former Russian aerospace engineers. They don't need us right now to make super engines.
I buy what is worth my money, be it American or whatever. If an American company wanted to make engines as good as Saitos, the new Norvels and Evolutions, they would do it competitively. There aren't many trade secrets on model airplane engines. It could be done.