That makes absolutely no sense, Wu is in china so
some back and forth in order to get the collars to fit correctly is to be expected. Following which you're done because the chinese shop can make the collars to order whenever that's needed.
> bringing a Twitter personality into a story that's not really about her?
Wu was already involved in this. Per her comments she'd already sent packages of collars to be tested and altered / fitted.
Hell, mentioning that there was a volunteer / grassroots effort to produce new collars would have been more honest than the article going "collars where?"