David Parker’s Reviews > Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company > Status Update

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.

Rule by Law is controlling the people— or this case, nudging corporate behavior. Voluntary is the new mandatory.

China began to exploit this by designing legislation to compel foreign companies to respond with favors: overhaul how they did business, leave China, or find out what the local officials wanted. Rule by law.

When foreign factories began to build in the experimental zones, 1980’s, rural farmers were allowed to work there but not put down roots. They had problems with social services, and few labor rights, and their children couldn’t attend urban schools.

The centralized government has control over personnel, whereas sub national governments run the bulk of the economy; and they initiate, negotiate, implement, divert, and resist reforms, policies, rules, and laws. Thus allowing duplication on a large scale.

China is a more decentralized nation than America. China is federalism on steroids, contrasting with Soviet Communism. Beijing sets the goals in substance and pace, but it’s up to the provinces, municipalities, and countries to figure out how to meet them.