Chinese Patients "Seeked" For Class Action "Lawesuit"

I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen, but I still found it somewhat disquieting (beyond just the atrocious grammar and spelling, a/k/a Chinglish) to see the following Xinhua headline:  "Patients seeked [sic] for lawesuit [sic] against Bausch & Lomb."  Seems American lawyers are rounding up Chinese class action plaintiffs for a lawsuit against Bausch & Lamb involving recalled contact lenses.   

Personal injury lawsuits worth $75,000 in the United States would likely fetch less than $7,500 in China.  This difference creates an obvious incentive to sue in the United States, rather than in China, whenever possible.   

Some argue it is unfair for someone injured the United States to get more for their injury than someone injured in China.  There are, however, very good reasons for this.  First and foremost is the huge difference in wages between the two countries.  Second, the cost of living, including medical care, is much higher in the United States than in China.  Arguing against different damage awards is hardly any different than arguing for Chinese factory workers to be subject to California minimum wage laws.  A more sophisticated argument favoring equal damage payments is that American companies will hardly be deterred from producing dangerous products if all they have to do is pay out $7,500 per injury.   

It will be interesting to see how United States courts handle Chinese plaintiffs in personal injury class action lawsuits as this issue will no doubt become more common.  Will Chinese plaintiffs in American courts receive awards comparable to those received by domestic American plaintiffs or will they be more in line with those they might be expected  to receive in China?  Will Chinese plaintiffs one day seek to sue American companies in American courts for injuries caused by products manufactured by an American company in China?

I understand this issue of differing damages in an international context comes up fairly often in airplane and vessel injury cases, but I am not aware of how courts typically handle it.  Perhaps an Aviation, Maritime or personal injury lawyer will comment on this.