I don't find grave fault with Apple. I find grave moral issues with anyone who does business with China.
Oh GOOD GRIEF!
There you go, making up FACTURDS! Where do you get this nonsense! You sound like a DEMOCRAT, willing to write anything to win.
Foxconn IS NOT OWNED BY THE Communist Chinese Government, GingisK.
"Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan."
Foxconn is owned by HonHai Precision Industries, , a publicly traded company headed up by CEO Terry Gou, who also founded it, based in TAIWAN. It is a purely capitalist venture that is NOT owned by China, it merely operates some of its manufacturing plants in China, among many other countries. The Chinese government owns no stock in Foxconn or HonHai. It is purely a private venture. Much of the equipment used by Foxconn to assemble Apple's products is owned by Apple and leased to Foxconn. In addition, Foxconn does not make anything except Consumer Electronics; they do not make purses. Quit making up your "facts" which you apparently pull out of thin air to bolster your arguments.
I was educated as an Economist and I can tell you that China is no longer a purely or even mostly a Communist economy. China is operating under a Capitalist economy with a socialist infrastructure for certain major portions of their economy. China's move away from Communism is the reason for their economic surge and their becoming a world power in the past two decades and their leadership knows it. They are STILL a dictatorship of an oligarchy, but it is anything but Communistic. They are still highly regulated in some areas, but are getting less so as they attempt to free their economy from the constraints of the soviet model. Frankly, I would more likely describe modern China as a Socialistic Bureaucratic Fascism than Communism. They have abandoned the central command driven economic model of communism for a modified market driven one of Capitalism. While they have not yet gone 100% market driven in areas such as health care, power generation, shipping, transportation, housing, etc., in areas including agriculture, manufacturing, retail sales, and services, they are moving to private production and choice. It is paying off for them.