Workers beaten at iPhone factory

Police beat workers protesting conditions at the world's biggest factory for the Apple

iPhone, whose latest model is delayed because anti-COVID measures crimp China's manufacturing of affordable high technology for the world. Foxconn, a contract assembler that makes the global smartphone industry possible, didn't have enough workers to make the new iPhone 14.

Around China, laborers are housed in “closed loops” of dorms isolated from the general population, making it harder to recruit the workers.

China has waged the future of the world's largest economy on contract manufacturing like Foxconn's.

It's also betting on its ability to control COVID with some of the world's strictest anti-virus controls.