China moving up the technology chain

 Let us be honest. China is moving up the technology chain and not just content to be an iPhone assembling hub forever, with workers making pittance out of assembling iPhones, while Apple laughs all the way to the bank. China is not content to let its citizens be paid 'slave wages' to make products for freeloading by the perpetrators of the 'slave wages' mantra.

China's supply chain for smartphones does not serve Apple alone. There are dozens of smartphone manufacturers in China, all Chinese brands at that, that can source their inputs from the supply chain down the road. The USA is forcing Apple to decouple from China's supply chain, so what is the point of fretting over Apple's eventual departure, even if it does happen.

China is placing priority in overcoming its chip sector reliance on the West, Japan and South Korea. China is ready to fight its battle against the 'Chips Alliance'. Not only in chips manufacturing, but China is also going into chip making equipment like lithography machines and selling them cheap to make ASML uncompetitive.

Another area that China is moving into is aviation, one that China has yet to have a foothold to counter the likes of Boeing and Airbus. The falling fortune and reputation of Boeing is a good opportunity for China, the right place and the right time to take advantage. It will be difficult no doubt, but not impossible. Impossible is not in the vocabulary of the Chinese. They now have a space station, a Beidou satellite mapping system for its miliary, satellites circling the moon, have been to the moon and have landed a probe on Mars, are the frontrunner in high-speed railway construction that are in demand around the world, and helping to lift countries out of poverty.

That is where China is moving, not in the least worrying trend about Apple's move to India.

Anonymous