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To: Red Badger

That is what I call shooting yourself in the foot. Apple may have HQ in the US that employs a small minority of their global employees but most of the assembler worker bees are in China which has already stolen the technology so that their Chinese competitor selling in China has now exceeded Apple sales in China. I guess Apple was seeing the writing on the wall and started to expand their manufacturing capacity in India, Good for them. American companies are now forewarned to look elsewhere than China in expanding manufacturing operations. Hope this leads to economic chaos in enemy China and the rest of American manufacturers there start looking elsewhere to manufacture product.The reality is the Chinese never intended for US products to penetrate their markets.


7 posted on 08/07/2018 10:21:59 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: chuckee

Chinese companies have always differentiated between products for export (which has fueled their economic growth), and products for internal consumption (cheaper and affordable to the growing middle class).

They want more of the latter but they can’t get it without more of the former. No one can replace the US in the Chinese economy.


15 posted on 08/07/2018 10:30:11 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: chuckee
That is what I call shooting yourself in the foot. Apple may have HQ in the US that employs a small minority of their global employees but most of the assembler worker bees are in China which has already stolen the technology so that their Chinese competitor selling in China has now exceeded Apple sales in China. I guess Apple was seeing the writing on the wall and started to expand their manufacturing capacity in India, Good for them. American companies are now forewarned to look elsewhere than China in expanding manufacturing operations. Hope this leads to economic chaos in enemy China and the rest of American manufacturers there start looking elsewhere to manufacture product.The reality is the Chinese never intended for US products to penetrate their markets.

Uh, chuckee? Those employees in China are not employed by Apple, they work for FoxConn, an entirely independent company who assembles Consumer and Industrial Electronics for over 500 different companies of which Apple is only one customer. Here is a list of 71 of the larger companies that FoxConn contracts with to do their assembly (US companies in BOLD):


29 posted on 08/07/2018 2:19:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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