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Strange that Apple and Foxconn have just announced that even more of Apple IPhone assembling is being shifted to Vietnam and India.

But, how much?

Apple ramps up iPhone, iPad, Mac production shift out of China Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:38 pm
Apple is ramping up the production of iPhones, iPads, Macs and other products outside of China, Nikkei Asia reports on Wednesday, in a sign that the Cupertino Colossus is continuing to accelerate its production diversification efforts.
Apple logoLauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang for Nikkei Asia:
Sources said iPad production will begin in Vietnam as early as the middle of this year, marking the first time that the world’s biggest tablet maker will build a significant number of the devices outside of China. The California tech giant is also stepping up iPhone production in India, its second-largest production base for the iconic device, sources added, with plans to start producing the latest iPhone 12 series — the company’s first 5G smartphones — there as soon as this quarter.
Apple is also increasing production capacity for smart speakers, earphones and computers in Southeast Asia as part of its ongoing diversification strategy, the sources added.
Apple has relocated some production of the Mac mini, one of its desktop computers, to Malaysia, another person familiar with the matter told Nikkei, and the company is also set to move a part of its MacBook production to Vietnam this year.
Apple’s moves are part of a larger trend of global tech giants reducing their production dependence on China, long known as the world’s factory. The country’s rising labor costs, the prolonged trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that severely disrupted the supply chain have all driven home the risks of depending too heavily on one country. The U.S. government, moreover, has initiated a “supply chain restructuring” campaign and urged tech suppliers to move away from China, the Nikkei reported earlier.
MacDailyNews Take: Former U.S. President Richard Nixon, who opened relations with China in the early 1970’s, just before his death in 1994 remarked on China: We may have created a Frankenstein.
Apple cannot divest their dependence on China quickly enough (because they started years too late).
It’s smart for both Apple and Foxconn to diversify assembly outside of China. There’s no sense having all of your eggs in one basket. — MacDailyNews, April 2, 2019

Apple cannot divest their dependence on China quickly enough (because they started years too late).

Apple was thinking of divesting dependence on China, mostly because Trump was president and he was wanting OUR companies to bring back production to the U.S. Now that Biden (a China stooge) is president, China will remain Apple's biggest production country.

And...

The Chinese government will make sure that Apple devices are the most purchased in that country, simply because, Apple has huge parts of their manufacturing in that country. And, China, like a lot of other countries do, will be discounting prices (IOW, subsidizing) Apple's devices so that people will be able to 'afford' them. So, no matter which devices the Chinese buy, low-priced or higher, the Chinese people cannot afford them, because, to a huge portion of the people there, an Apple device might require a year's salary to purchase.