Wait, wait. If it's Shanghai, it's close to real life Hoenn. It would probrably have non-native Pokemon in Isshu's Regional Dex. If it was NYC, it wouldn't have any non-natives.
Ah, but Gamefreak already announced BW being a reboot of the francshie, that the Regional Dex will be all new Pokemon.
"To try yes strategies"
xD unless Hu Jintao forbades pokemon in china. But then team plasma will free the pokemon from evil Hu Jintao ;D (jk i dont think hu jintao is evil)
Maybe team plasma is american group of people going to china and trying to release pokemon :D and they fashion suits americans more then chinese xD
My theory was flawed from the beginning.
See, the DS costs (after conversion from Dollar-Yuan) about 3x more than SHOULD in China.
Unless import taxes suddenly disappear, not many people are going to buy a DS.
(GBA's still the norm there)
However, the 13th movie (with Zoroak and Celebi), was actually fully translated to Chinese and played in movies theaters.
Also, the usual ban on foreign cartoons seemed to let Pokemon be an exception nowadays.
Back 2 years ago in China, Yu-gi-oh was King of Trading Card Games. You try mentioning Pokemon, they'll have no clue what you're talking about. Now, several trading card games (like Pokemon) managed to squirm to the (somewhat) mainstream.
And also, :(. This may be influenced by "Chinese Brainwash", but the Westerns really got to understand the concept of Chinese socialism (yes, not communism). The government only censors thing that offends itself. See, the Chinese government is very sensitive about the rapi growth of China and want to keep it that.