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Tag: CCP

Apple assembler Foxconn faces logistics disarray from China’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ lockdowns

Thursday, May 12, 2022 4:04 pm5 Comments

Apple assembler Foxconn said it faces logistics disruptions and other challenges in China stemming from the CCP’s stringent COVID-19 …

Apple’s China engineers keep products flowing amid CCP’s draconian COVID lockdowns

Monday, May 9, 2022 10:35 amNo Comments

Prior to the CCP’s various responses to COVID, Apple sent hundreds of U.S. engineers each month to China to oversee the contract…

Workers at Apple supplier factory in China clash with guards over ‘zero-COVID’ lockdowns

Friday, May 6, 2022 9:05 amFriday, May 6, 202220 Comments

Hundreds of workers at an Apple supplier’s factory in China clashed with authorities, flooding past barriers after draconian lockdowns…

Apple assembler Foxconn says no change to production as China ratchets up quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ quest

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 4:22 pm3 Comments

The CCP has shut down dozens of metro stations and bus routes in Bejing as it ratchets up its quixotic quest to achieve zero-COVID …

Chinese Apple suppliers given priority for factory restarts in Shanghai

Saturday, April 30, 2022 10:42 am29 Comments

As economic pains from the COVID policies grew, China has been pushing to resume factory operations, with Apple suppliers given priority for…


China’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ quest pushes February MacBook Pro orders into June

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 3:28 pmWednesday, April 27, 20227 Comments

Customers who ordered a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip in February are being notified that their new Macs aren’t coming until June…

Half of Apple’s suppliers at risk in China due to quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ lockdown quest

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 9:31 am8 Comments

Half of Apple’s 200 top suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, China where the CCP’s quixotic quest for “zero-COVID” has caused…

Pegatron suspends iPhone assembly in Shanghai and Kunshan due to draconian Chinese crackdown

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 1:33 pmWednesday, April 13, 20226 Comments

Apple iPhone assembler Pegatron has suspended production in Shanghai and Kunshan amid a draconian crackdown that the CCP claims…

Gay dating app Grindr pulled from Apple App Store in China

Monday, January 31, 2022 1:14 pm12 Comments

Days after The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) vowed to renew its campaign to police online content, a popular gay dating app, Grindr, has…

Apple shifted business to Chinese suppliers to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party

Thursday, December 30, 2021 10:39 am15 Comments

Apple’s increased its reliance on Chinese partners, both as a way of cutting costs as well as to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party

Luxshare builds massive iPhone factory in China to challenge Foxconn and Pegatron

Wednesday, December 22, 2021 3:12 pm7 Comments

Luxshare Precision Industry is building a massive manufacturing complex in eastern China as it aims — with Apple’s blessing — to break…

Apple CEO Tim Cook signed secret $275+ billion deal with China in 2016

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 10:41 amTuesday, December 7, 202125 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook signed a secret $275+ billion deal with China, promising that Apple would help to develop China’s economic…

Alibaba sees $84.54 billion in orders over 11-day Singles’ Day sales event, up 14% YOY

Thursday, November 11, 2021 3:03 pmThursday, November 11, 2021No Comments

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba recorded 540.3 billion yuan ($84.54 billion) in orders over its 11-day Singles’ Day sales event, a 14%…

Chinese Communist Party cracks down on private sector handling of data

Friday, August 20, 2021 3:26 pm4 Comments

China is tightening control over information gathered by companies, expanding the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown…

Apple extends list of terms censored in China to Hong Kong and Taiwan

Wednesday, August 18, 2021 2:50 pmWednesday, August 18, 20214 Comments

The researchers found that part of Apple’s mainland China political censorship bleeds into both Hong Kong and Taiwan. Much of this censorship…

China demands that Apple pull Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app from App Store

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 4:20 pmTuesday, July 6, 202114 Comments

China’s cyberspace regulator has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing. This includes Apple’s App Store. Apple in 2016 invested $1B…

Four U.S. Congressmen: Apple is ‘a pawn in China’s malfeasance’

Friday, May 21, 2021 2:03 pmFriday, May 21, 202144 Comments

Four U.S. Congressmen have accused Apple of being “a pawn in China’s malfeasance” by risking users privacy in the CCP-controlled country…

Tim Cook’s Apple is built in China; now it has to answer to the Chinese Communist Party

Monday, May 17, 2021 4:45 pmMonday, May 17, 202153 Comments

Tens of thousands of apps have disappeared from Apple’s App Store in China over the past several years, more than previously known…

China’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist, shares plunge

Friday, January 15, 2021 9:06 am19 Comments

The shares of China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. DOJ…

Apple removes over 46,000 apps from China App Store

Thursday, December 31, 2020 9:04 am9 Comments

On the year-end deadline for all game publishers to obtain a license in China, Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its App Store in…

Apple purges thousands of apps from China App Store amid CCP pressure

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 3:35 pm22 Comments

Apple is purging thousands of videogame apps from the App Store in China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on such content…

Apple lobbies White House for lower taxes to boost U.S. chip production

Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:06 pm29 Comments

Apple has been lobbying the U.S. government on tax breaks to support domestic chip production. The company lobbied the White House…

President Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday

Friday, September 18, 2020 10:28 am28 Comments

The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night…

President Trump gives ByteDance and Microsoft until Sept. 15th to reach TikTok deal

Monday, August 17, 2020 2:54 pm10 Comments

With TikTok, owner ByteDance became the first Chinese company to achieve global success with a consumer app. But, the Trump administration…

President Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in U.S. TikTok operations within 90 days

Saturday, August 15, 2020 11:23 amSaturday, August 15, 202046 Comments

On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90…

President Trump on concerns WeChat ban could hurt Apple: ‘Whatever’

Friday, August 14, 2020 4:11 pm38 Comments

On Friday, U.S. President Trump seemed nonplused when asked about the ramifications of banning WeChat on Apple’s iPhone business in China…

Apple warns President Trump about potential ramifications WeChat ban

Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:09 am15 Comments

Apple is among more than a dozen U.S. companies which during a conference call on Tuesday warned the Trump administration about…

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple iPhone sales could decline up to 30% over WeChat ban

Monday, August 10, 2020 9:15 am13 Comments

According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s worst-case scenario, Apple’s annual global iPhone shipments could decline by 25–30% if the company…

U.S. President Trump issues executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat

Friday, August 7, 2020 12:09 am14 Comments

U.S. President Trump today issued executive orders banning the China-based TikTok video-sharing and WeChat messaging social networking apps…

Clean Network: U.S. steps up campaign to purge untrusted Chinese apps

Thursday, August 6, 2020 8:55 am6 Comments

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said expanded U.S. efforts on a program it calls “Clean Network” would focus on five areas and include…

President Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to buy TikTok’s U.S. business

Monday, August 3, 2020 8:54 amMonday, August 3, 202023 Comments

Microsoft on Sunday confirmed that U.S. President Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has discussed Microsoft exploring a purchase of TikTok…

President Trump vows to ban Chinese-owned TikTok from the U.S.

Saturday, August 1, 2020 10:39 am33 Comments

President Donald Trump has announced he plans to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S. He told reporters aboard Air Force One…

Huawei passes Samsung to become No.1 in global smartphone unit sales

Thursday, July 30, 2020 10:41 amThursday, July 30, 20206 Comments

In the never-ending quest of fake iPhone peddlers to make it up on volume, Huawei last quarter passed Samsung to become No. in global smartphone unit sales…

EU imposes sanctions on China, moving closer to Trump administration’s tougher stance

Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:53 am4 Comments

On Tuesday, the European Union imposed sanctions on China over its treatment of Hong Kong moving the bloc closer to the Trump administration’s tougher…

Apple bows to Chinese government censorship, to pull thousands of games from China App Store

Monday, June 22, 2020 9:41 am18 Comments

Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games lacking approval of the Communist Party of China from the company’s China App Store in July…

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