Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Hanoi on Monday, starting a two-day visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a key manufacturing hub for the company, during which he is expected to meet students and content creators, according to Socialist Republic of Vietnam state media.
Reuters:
Cook will also meet users of Apple products to better understand how they are employed, online newspaper VietnamNet said.
Apple would boost its connection with local suppliers, clean water projects and education opportunities, it quoted Cook as saying on arrival.
Last week, more than 60 human and environmental rights bodies pressed Apple in a letter to take action on Vietnam’s detention of climate experts, with activist organisations urging it to weigh in on the matter, given its manufacturing links.
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I’m sure he felt right at home (People’s Republic of California).
I’m sure ‘social justice’ issues will be at the top of discussions.
“Elections in Vietnam have been characterized as nothing more than a rubber stamp, with every election resulting in 99% of votes for the CPV. Freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to a healthy environment are severely restricted. Citizens critical of the Vietnamese government or who discuss certain topics deemed “unacceptable” by the CPV are often subject to intimidation and imprisonment.”
The United States dropped more bombs on Viet Nam than in all of WW 2 combined. The psychotic history of this idiotic political sacrifice of 50,000 of our best people for no good reason is overly documented in book after book after book for anyone who sincerely wants to understand how wrong our country was to do what we did. Frankly, it is amazing to me that people from our country are welcome there at all when you understand the level of violence we visited upon this third world country. Certainly, we long ago sacrificed our right to judge and criticize their country and political system.
We sacrificed ZERO rights to judge and criticize a proven failure of a system, socialism, that is responsible for more deaths throughout history than any other.
A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.
No point in dealing with jingoistic mental zeros like First Then.
Hopeless mental midgets who think Americans only do right.
You are a waste of food and not worth debating.
Yes Texzen, you know firsthand all about “mental zeroes” as you are the epitome of one…
So let me get this straight. JFK assassinated their democratic leader out of fear of communism, installed the extremely unpopular military leadership and started a war, which then turned every citizen there against us. Brilliant strategy.
Viet Nam seems to be doing well but there’s always China next door.
JFK was buying time for the short run until the 1964 election was out of the way. Then he would remove the very few USA “advisors” (maybe 10,000) and back the US out. His assassin(s) put a stop to that plan. LBJ & Robert MacNamera, on the other hand, plunged headlong into massive troop shipments there (650,000 at any given time over nearly a decade) enriching themselves and the military/industrial complex (which General and POTUS Eisenhower warned the country about in his final farewell speech). They cost the USA almost 60,000 killed-in-action and many times more wounded and maimed for life; and all for nothing. The Gulf of Tonkin “incident” which they used as an excuse to escalate, was a fairy tale.
Sure have to admire a country that can successfully defend itself from a so called super power nation.
They not only defended, they effectively “won.” It seems pretty clear now–esp after Afghanistan, there are many in the DoD/Intel Comm that have no interest in winning. Who would want their “business” to close, or run out of “production goals” to meet.
IC is America’s biggest danger. Wearied.
Road Warrior emerges from his socialist cocoon like clockwork to spew and imply snarky HATRED for the United States. A citizen of a socialist country whose own government ordered local police to lock citizens in their homes as prisoners, due to a leftist fever swamp OVERREACTION to Covid. Well, from the greatest country in the world — F*ck off mate!…