Foxconn Mysteriously Tells Chinese Workers To Quit India and Return To China 39
Apple's expansion in India has hit a snag as Foxconn has sent over 300 Chinese workers back to China, potentially reducing production efficiency just as mass manufacturing of the iPhone 17 begins. AppleInsider reports: It's not known why Foxconn has done this, nor is it clear whether workers have been laid off or redeployed to the company's facilities in China. The move, though, does follow Beijing officials reportedly working to prevent firms moving away from China. Those officials are said to have been verbally encouraging China's local governments and regulatory bodies to curb exports of equipment or technologies to India and Southeast Asia.
Overall, China has been making it harder for skilled labor to leave the country. It's not clear how any changes have specifically affected Chinese workers who had already left.What is clear is that Foxconn has used many experienced Chinese engineers as it attempts to rapidly expand in India. It's said, too, that Chinese managers have been vital in training Foxconn staff in India. Since that training has been ongoing for some years, and since at least most of Foxconn's production lines have been set up, it's said that there will not be an impact on the quality of manufacturing. But one source said the changes will impact efficiency on the production line.
Overall, China has been making it harder for skilled labor to leave the country. It's not clear how any changes have specifically affected Chinese workers who had already left.What is clear is that Foxconn has used many experienced Chinese engineers as it attempts to rapidly expand in India. It's said, too, that Chinese managers have been vital in training Foxconn staff in India. Since that training has been ongoing for some years, and since at least most of Foxconn's production lines have been set up, it's said that there will not be an impact on the quality of manufacturing. But one source said the changes will impact efficiency on the production line.
Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:2)
Apple should just cut foxconn out!
Re:Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:5, Informative)
They don't have anyone else to build their products.
Re: Send those coolies back... (Score:2)
How quaint. But still a foolish attitude, no matter the century you cosplay from.
Re: Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:2, Interesting)
Tim should ask Donald for some advice. The genius has 50% tariff on steel and aluminium from Canada, and even with that, couldn't save the Cleveland cliffs steel plant in Pennsylvania. 5 D chess right there, length, width, height, time, the 5th d is for Donald.
Re: Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:4, Insightful)
You bring up a good point. He keeps talking about the "commie mayor" possibly getting elected but taking a cut of that steel deal isn't the government seizing the means of production? Or do we call it something different?
cause and effect flipped around in your head (Score:2)
Straight out of Karl Marx: taxes are communism.
Not exactly, he saw taxes as a prerequisite for communism. You've made an inferential leap that is illogical.
Counter example: Egyptian palace economy, Roman republican and empire, among others all famously collected taxes.
"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
- Karl Marx
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Rules for thee, not for me.
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They don't have anyone else to build their products.
Wrong, they also use pegatron, winstron and compal, but yes, foxxcon gets the lion's share of apple's bussienss.
Strange they do not have anything with celestica, as being canadian should slightly help with the geopolitics...
Re:Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:4, Insightful)
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Three things that have nothing to do with tariffs. Like serious petrol prices? It's like you haven't paid attention at all to what was going on in the middle east have you, or the fact that oil and petrol fell when the courts blocked the first round of tariffs - like really driving the opposite point of the one you were trying to make.
Re: Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:2)
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The service oriented economy is the evolution of the manufacturing economy.
There are half a million manufacturing jobs right now in the US that are waiting to be filled. No one is filling them. Trump bringing back manufacturing isn't going to help that.
You ca
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Re: Apple should just cut foxconn out! (Score:2)
I have a bad feeling about this. (Score:1)
There's that repeated line from the Star Wars franchise, "I have a bad feeling about this." This is a line used before something bad happens to the heroes.
Pulling people out of a foreign nation is often a prelude to an attack. Look to what the USA did in the lead up to the bombings in Iran. There was a call to get American citizens out. That revealed something was up, but still left open the questions of precisely when, where, and how something would happen.
There's been speculations on when China might
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> China is not in a good place right now. They need raw materials, energy, people, food, and likely more.
Um, no. China is in a good place (not great).
China does not need people. Granted, they need young people, like most industrialized nations which is what I assume you meant. Either wait out the demographic collapse of other nations or act now. It's not clear what the result will be, but "need" is not correct.
The Yuan is becoming the refuge for a large amount of international debt, largely because the C
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China is not in a good place right now. They need [...] people,
Chinese population has peaked. Their population is expected to decrease by half until 2100. Their opportunity window to use young men for the army will be closing, so the right decision for them would be to start any war ASAP.
Sources:
* https://population.un.org/wpp/... [un.org]
* https://www.scientificamerican... [scientificamerican.com]
Foxconn is Taiwanese (Score:5, Informative)
Foxconn (Hon Hai) is a Taiwanese firm. It has a lot of factories in China, but it isn't Chinese.
I'm sure they could send experienced Taiwanese engineers to the Indian factories to replace the departing Chinese.
Re:Foxconn is Taiwanese (Score:4, Insightful)
Right now, both China and Taiwan, as well as several other countries in SE Asia, are seeing India's massive source of potential cheap labour as an existential threat to a core part of their economies, and while they are, in many cases, at least someone allied politically with each other, they're all still very much trying to stamp on the fingers on the rungs of the ladder just below them.
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And so it begins... (Score:3)
I guess that is how it started here.
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Backdoors in Global Marketplace (Score:2)