My original point has nothing to do with the products made elsewhere. My original comment was a sarcastic reference to Apple's reliance on communist; i.e SLAVE labor.
The Chinese slaves are so proud.
You can split hairs all you want. Apple could be making Eskimo whale spears in Greenland. It wouldn't change the fact that a huge number of their iphones have been and continue to be assembled by the oppressed victims of Communism in China.
This slave labor in China is a myth left over from the full communist period of the past, promulgated by propaganda.
If you don't believe that life under Communism is slavery then you are the one swallowing propaganda and you probably don't belong on FreeRepublic.
And I am telling you that China is no longer being run as a Communist economy. Thelr dictatorial government learned that communism and centralized control DID NOT WORK, so they changed their economic system to a modified Semi-State Capitalism with independent Capitalism allowed as well. WAKE UP before they take over the world markets. China is a global Capitalist economy now. They are making Capitalist investments everywhere. That does not mean they would not nationalize the independent Capitalists at any moment. . . But right now they are run independently, with far less government regulation than we have in the US.
China has a growing middle class, and there is also a thriving Entrepreneur Class building thousands of Independent small businesses in China. Some of them have already become billionaires. It’s because of a Capitalist, market driven economy, not communism. WAKE UP, look at the facts, not the myths. Yes, it is not a Democracy, but it is not a communist control of the market, labor, or production any longer either, as you seem to think it is.