Status Updates From Apple in China: The Capture...

Apple Squeeze (profit) tilted the field in favor of local verses Taiwanese rivals. They would work for the experience, could access cheap capital, government subsidies, land appropriation, and a labor pool. Foxconn (Taiwan) that had builtChina’s manufacturing over the past forty years was being strangled.

Ci Jinping’s Made in China 2025 plan, published in 2015, had asked Chinese companies to “master core technologies, perfect the industrial supply chain, and perform our own development capabilities.”

By 2018, Xi had shut down Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, SACOM, after thirteen years of advocacy, the group disbanded.

2013 Chinese news presses for worker rights: overtime, and dormitories number workers. Jacky Haynes attempted to champion for workers but subcontractors faced with profits and Apples’, “do what ever it takes.” approach among suppliers meant that if you wanted to be in the loop, show a profit.