Chinese media found out on the 21st that Intel Corp. has publicly requested on its official website that its supply chain not use any labor, sourced products or services from China’s Xinjiang region. Not many big companies in the United States do this, and most U.S. companies familiar to the Chinese have a negative soft-top attitude toward Washington’s demand to boycott so-called “forced labor” products from Xinjiang.
A letter to suppliers on Intel’s website declared a ban on products or services from Xinjiang in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English and Japanese.
Intel dares to do this because it has very few Xinjiang products in its supply chain in the first place, and its CPUs are still in hard demand in China at the moment, and it is not too worried about Chinese retaliation, or it feels that pleasing the U.S. and Western society is more important than not offending China, even though China has been Intel’s largest source of global revenue for six years in a row.
Intel has effectively become the “mouthpiece” of the U.S. corporate sector’s representation of China, helping to increase the firepower of the U.S. war of public opinion against China. The most hateful, it is typically “eating the dinner but smashing the pot”.
The company’s revenue from mainland China (including Hong Kong) was $20.26 billion (about 129.09 billion yuan) in 2020, according to Intel’s earnings report, which disclosed that mainland China has been the company’s top source of revenue since 2015.
I think that if the Chinese are realistic, they will not take offense in foreign struggles. First of all, the United States is still more powerful than us, and there are times when we can’t control each other and are passive, and it is inevitable that the other side will be arrogant. Intel’s rampant clearly exposed our weaknesses.
But at the same time, we should also see that the U.S. restaurant giants, car manufacturers, machinery and equipment manufacturers, Hollywood and so on take very moderate attitude towards China, which also measured the other side of China’s strength. The situation in the U.S.-China game is constantly changing, with China’s territory and middle ground expanding, and the space for the U.S. to play rough without scruples gradually becoming smaller is the general trend.
The Chinese must be open-minded and have a pattern. The U.S. will fight China next, as long as it is real, it will not be easy to constantly gasping for air. We have to go back and forth with the United States, but do not need to indulge in them, we have to focus more on the domestic agenda.
Let’s pull out our little books and write down the bad things that companies like Intel do. The stronger China gets, the more we will be able to get back at them. Source