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