<story><title>China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>So I googled and saw that there&amp;#x27;s 4.8 Million apple employees in China? More than i expected when I started the Google search.&lt;p&gt;With that said, is that enough for China to care at all? a little? a lot? Meaning, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if China would forgo plenty of jobs from Western companies as their economy matures. Especially if China fully boycotted Apple, I doubt many other US Companies would respond at all&lt;p&gt;Many of those companies are showing themselves to be spineless right now</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Apple will most likely be fine because it&amp;#x27;s unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It&amp;#x27;s not in the CCP&amp;#x27;s interest for people to boycott Apple in a nationalist fervor only for unemployment to rise, which would be an existential threat to the CCP if they lost control of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tnolet</author><text>Not sure what Google you use, but Apple has about 123.000 employees in total.&lt;p&gt;Edit: according to Wiki, the US DoD is the largest employer in the world at 2.1M employees.&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_largest_employers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_largest_employers&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>So I googled and saw that there&amp;#x27;s 4.8 Million apple employees in China? More than i expected when I started the Google search.&lt;p&gt;With that said, is that enough for China to care at all? a little? a lot? Meaning, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if China would forgo plenty of jobs from Western companies as their economy matures. Especially if China fully boycotted Apple, I doubt many other US Companies would respond at all&lt;p&gt;Many of those companies are showing themselves to be spineless right now</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Apple will most likely be fine because it&amp;#x27;s unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It&amp;#x27;s not in the CCP&amp;#x27;s interest for people to boycott Apple in a nationalist fervor only for unemployment to rise, which would be an existential threat to the CCP if they lost control of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Despegar</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s easy to boycott companies that are only in China as another market to sell to. It&amp;#x27;s not easy to boycott one of the largest private employers in an industry the CCP views as strategically important.</text></comment>