Fearing COVID Lockdown, Over 10,000 Workers Break Out of China’s Biggest iPhone Factory
A multitude of posts on Chinese social media sites documents the journeys many of the workers took to reach home or simply get as far away as they could from the lockdowns. Though information related to the break-out was quickly suppressed, the news spread widely generating heated discussion among Chinese internet users.
New Documentary Highlights the Hidden Price of Making an iPhone
Irene Luo | Epoch Times NEW YORK—Like millions of young men and women in rural China, Yi Yeting journeyed to the coastal cities for better job prospects. In Shenzhen, a southeastern metropolis bordering Hong Kong, Yi found employment with a large state-owned manufacturing company. Two years into his job, doctors told Yi, then only 24, […]
Tech Giant Apple Accused of Pandering to Beijing
James Burke | Vision Times American multinational tech company Apple appears to be doing Beijing’s bidding with an alleged advert ban placed upon two independent Chinese language media publications in Australia. Management from our sister publication The Vision Times China (aka Kanzhongguo), and another Chinese language media The Epoch Times, told The Australian earlier this […]
She Quit the CCP While Standing on the IPhone Line
Lori Harel | Tuidang Center At New York City Grand Central Station, outside a 42nd street entrance, before dawn, a long line of people went down the block and around the corner. They had camped the night waiting for the Apple store to open so they could to be first to own the new iPhone. […]