iPhone 17 :

Chinese government has ordered the immediate repatriation of over 300 Chinese engineers and technicians from the Foxconn plant in Chennai. They have all returned home.

This is currently threatening the production of the iPhone 17. iPhones manufactured in India, especially in Chennai, are sold through the market. One-fifth of the iPhones sold in the world are manufactured at the Foxconn plant near Chennai and exported worldwide.

For this, technicians and engineers from all over the world are staying and working in Chennai. A large number of engineers and technicians from China, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea work at the Foxconn plant in Chennai and are involved in the production of the Apple iPhone 17 model, which is scheduled to be released in September. US President Trump has been urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to open an Apple plant in India in the US.

Otherwise, he had warned that additional duties would be imposed on Apple iPhones imported from India to the US. In this situation, the production of Apple iPhone 17, which is being manufactured with the help of Chinese engineers and technicians, is currently in danger of being affected. Because the Chinese government has ordered more than 300 Chinese iPhone technicians and engineers working at the Chennai Foxconn plant to return to the country immediately. Bloomberg reported that they have also left Chennai immediately for China. Due to this, it has been reported that the production of iPhone 17 has been severely affected.

It is also said that only Taiwanese employees are currently involved in this work. It is said that the sudden evacuation of all Chinese experts has had a major impact on Apple’s Chennai production. Because the iPhone assembly facility and production quality at the Chennai Foxconn plant were in the hands of Chinese experts. The production of the next-generation iPhone 17 was also entrusted to them. Now that China has called in its experts, those works have been severely affected. It is reported that China has taken this step to prevent Chinese companies from transferring their production capabilities to other countries. This has created a stir.

* iPhone production at the Chennai Foxconn plant started 4 years ago.
* Last year alone, 2 crore iPhones were exported from Chennai.
* Last April alone, 1.5 crore iPhones were exported to the US.

* What is Modi doing?
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has targeted Prime Minister Modi over the exit of Chinese engineers from the Chennai manufacturing plant. In a related post, he wrote, ‘Modi ji, reports suggest that China has withdrawn its officials from India’s manufacturing sector. Isn’t it true that the Modi government, which has completely failed in the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ schemes, has forgotten about Doklam and Galwan, rolled out the ‘red carpet’ for Chinese companies and made it easy for Chinese citizens to benefit from the PLI scheme?

China has imposed strict restrictions on the export of rare earth magnets and minerals to India, which are essential for automobiles, electric vehicles, defense and high-security currency printing. However, isn’t it true that the Modi government has not taken any action in this regard and the Chinese authorities have not even given official appointment or approval to representatives of the Indian automobile sector? While China has stopped exporting speciality fertilizers to India for the past two months, China has continued to export them to other countries. India imports 80 per cent of its speciality fertilizers from China.

These are important to increase the yield of fruits, vegetables and other profitable crops. With China stopping fertilizers, won’t this move harm crores of our farmers who are already facing a crisis of urea and DAP fertilizers? Your government’s ‘Chinese guarantee’ has no expiry date. Five years ago, after the sacrifice of 20 brave soldiers of Galwan, you gave a letter of credit to China. Today China is taking full advantage of it. It seems we are watching helplessly,” he alleged.