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):
- Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
- Alcatel (France)
- Amazon (United States)
- Amoi (China)
- Apple Inc. (United States)
- Archos (France)
- ASRock (Taiwan)
- Asus (Taiwan)
- BBK (China)
- Barnes & Noble (United States)
- BenQ (South Korea)
- Blackberry (Canada)
- Cisco (United States)
- Coolpad (China)
- Dell Inc.(United States)
- EVGA Corporation (United States)
- Fujitsu (Japan)
- GE Thomson
- Google (United States)
- Griffin Technologies (United States)
- Gründig Mobile (Germany)
- Haier (China)
- Hewlett-Packard (United States)
- HiSense (China)
- Honor (China)
- HTC (Taiwan)
- Huawei (China)
- Intel (United States)
- IBM (United States)
- Kyocera Communications (Japan)
- Komko (China)
- LeEcco (China)
- Lenovo (China)
- Lenovo/Motorola Mobility (China)
- LG Lucky GoldStar (South Korea)
- Meizu (China)
- Microsoft (United States)
- Microsoft MSI (Taiwan)
- Motorola Communications (United States)
- NCR (United States)
- NEC Casio Communication (Japan)
- Netgear (United States)
- Nintendo (Japan)
- Nokia Oyj (Finland)
- Olivetti (Italy)
- OnePlus (China)
- Oppo (China)
- PackardBell (Netherlands)
- Panasonic (Japan)
- Philips (Netherlands)
- Pioneer Electronics (Japan)
- Samsung (South Korea)
- Sanyo (Japan)
- Sharp (Japan)
- Siemens (Germany)
- Smartisan (China)
- Sony (Japan)
- TCL Communication Technology (China)
- Technology Happy Life (China)
- Telefunken (Germany)
- Thomson (France)
- Toshiba (Japan)
- Vivo (China)
- VSun (China)
- Vizio (United States)
- Vodophone (UK)
- Wasam (China)
- Xiaomi (China)
- Zoostorm (New Zealand)
- ZTE (China)
- ZUK (China)
Thank you. Point still stands,though. Whether it an Apple product or a Vizio product being assembled through Foxconn in China, any rational corporate entity if they are interested in maintaining profitability is going to start moving operations elsewhere if the host nation starts singling out a particular nation’s enterprises in a trade battle.