[Zhang Fei]

Oops. Typo. The article is from Fortune, for which Arthur Dong is a contributor.

[House Atreides]

Apple is, I’m reasonably sure, putting together contingency plans with Foxconn to move assembly operations out of China on short notice. That would not be easy and can’t be done overnight but it can be done.

[JPJones]

“United Technologies, Caterpillar, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, IBM, Disney, Cargill, General Motors, Ford, and Procter & Gamble all have significant production capacity...”

So move back to the US.

Problem solved.

[PGR88]

Its a very good window on China’s thinking.

For them, every company or organization is an arm of the state and a tool of strategic power. Because in China - everything is ultimately tied to the State.

Yes, the USA uses corporations in the service of government and strategic aims as well, but we start with the premise they are completely independent actors.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Confucius say… he who lies down with dogs, soon have fleas.

Perhaps Apple should put on a collar.

[LibWhacker]

If they do this, kick ALL Chinese citizens who are students and faculty (so-called) out of our country pronto, but most of whom are actually just spies and intellectual property thieves. Get them out! America first! Reserve those university seats for smart American kids. Subsidize those kids instead of Chinese spies and thieves! We'll see how well that backward culture can keep up if we do not permit, actually subsidize, nine million of them to infiltrate our country. My guess: About as well as the Soviets did it.

[Bommer]

Easily fixed. Layoff all Chinese workers and plunge the entire nation into a resession. Let’s see the commies control a few billion pissed off layer off workers. F’em!

[ifinnegan]

Not new. SOP.

Panic has made them less circumspect.

[Roccus]

China’s New Trade Strategy: Threatening U.S. Companies

Taking lessons from "the resistance" I see

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Time for American businesses to “Get the hell out of Red China” before they are “Castroized”.

[prophetic]

Nationalizing foreign companies is always in the playboy for these dictators.

Remember that to do any business in china, the company built there must be 51% chinese owned. And it's just a matter of time before they copy or steal the company secrets & tech and claim it as their own.

[prophetic]

So will the contingency plans include several tons of Thermite and/or high explosives to prevent critical manufacturing equipment, servers and data from falling into the Chinese hands?

If these companies have any sense at all, these plans should be ready within 24 hrs and prepared to hit the Kill Switch aka The Self Destruct Button.

One very strategic item they badly covet is our jet engines technology as that would give them a huge boost as they still have a ways to go in their jet engines designs.

[dsc]

“China’s ruling Community Party”

Pardon?

[dila813]

Bad News, these companies are making a beeline for the exits, meet capitalism’s big stick.

They aren’t going to produce product in China for the US Market.

They are going to Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Korea.

They are even moving production in with their suppliers to their factories in China.

You will be shocked how fast the capitalist pigs move.