A large slice of Apple’s gadgets are made in appalling conditions in China.
Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan province, is about a seven-hour drive southeast of Beijing and a six-hour drive north of Wuhan. Essentially, this means Zhengzhou is almost as far as you can get from the southern coastal region of China before you stray into the Mongolian autonomous region, or beyond that into Xinjiang, where nobody is allowed to stray these days.
The southern coastal region is where Deng Xiaoping launched his model of “socialism with Chinese characteristics” more than 40 years ago. That’s the model that has underpinned global economic growth for the past decade or two, the model that has led to China becoming the second-most powerful economy in the world...
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