Apple AirPods are displayed during a media event in San Francisco, in September 2016. File photo: Beck Diefenbach, Reuters
Apple AirPods manufacturer GoerTek claims US technology firms have been pressuring it to leave China amid rising Sino-US tensions, AppleInsider reports.
China’s GoerTek, which says it is already investing $280 million in a new plant in Vietnam, says suppliers and customers regularly question its China supply lines. Deputy chairman Kazuyoshi Yoshinaga said: “So many people from the client side say ‘When can you move out?’ ”
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