China retaliates against Apple's de-reliance on the country for manufacturing

Ever since before the pandemic, Apple has been trying to bring all production away from unstable China, going instead to places like Vietnam, Indonesia, the US (this article from November shows how good that's going, here: https://www.seeds-of-apple.com/post/tsmc-apple-chipmaker-accused-of-anti-american-discrimination-for-upcoming-arizona-plant), and last and most popular choice, India (refer to my January 6th article for the latest on that, here: https://www.seeds-of-apple.com/post/made-in-india-might-get-less-expensive). Now China is trying to block this move by blocking part exports to other countries including the ones listed above.

This was put in place with political and economic motivations (China says it's for security, but that's as good as everything else the country puts on the media). While the economic motivations have already been mentioned above, political motivations are because of Mr. Donald Trump's threat to put a 10% import tax on products coming from China. This move has only put extra power into other companies' efforts to move out of the country. China has made a "dual-use" list of electronics that could be used in military against the country to try to prove its so-called "security" standpoint for this retaliation, but items not on the list are being frisked more carefully because of similar HS codes.

By Leo