That sounds like Bullshit, what happened to the US based Printer that did
Chassepot to FAMAS and who by all accounts did a great job of producing 5 or 6 different copies of it. They also let Ian into the printing works to sign unfinished sheets before they were bound, to save him from having to sign individual copies.. which seems pretty accomodating of them. This is incidentally a US based company that he never actually named or promoted even though he shot videos at their facilitiy.
What sort of process begins with a statement of "I care about quality"and ends with printing the books in China,.
ALso who would have thought that prining a book focused on China in the 1920's to 30's, in China, might cause issues??? Anyone?
Incidentally Ian produced a video asking people what make them give him more money on Patreon... In the comments people there were loads of replies stating "get a subscribestar" something that he's always refused to do untill now..
After a dozen copy and paste replies, stating that he was also on Floatplane. He finally accepted that whatever arrangement he has with Patreon was costing him money. So a few hours later he started a Subscribestar.