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In the context of Apple lobbying the Indian government to improve incentives for moving some manufacturing there:

Apple assembles a bulk of its iPads in China, but is fast diversifying production to markets such as India and Vietnam to minimise the impact of the U.S.-China trade war and the coronavirus crisis…

It was not immediately clear which of Apple’s three contractors in India – Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron – would assemble iPads.

– Apple lobbies for India incentives as it plans iPad assembly: sources

It’s interesting that each of these three companies is an Indian subsidiary of a Taiwanese manufacturer. And that each of these companies has had factories in China for a long time now. And that China and Taiwan have a strained relationship, to put it mildly.

It’s going to be interesting watching corporation-states and nation-states interact this century.