> I rather recalled it being cited as the reason by Foxconn itself in multiple instances. It's more plausible that any company will give the more acceptable, e

> I rather recalled it being cited as the reason by Foxconn itself in multiple instances. It's more plausible that any company will give the more acceptable, easily digestible explanation, rather than the real one. But really it's the politicians who won, first by banging their chests for all the investments and jobs they created, now for getting an easy out. They can't be blamed for not seeing through any ploy because they can argue Foxconn obviously had good intentions sabotaged by "a misunderstanding" that couldn't have been caught. It's very unlikely (by that I mean close to impossible) that Foxconn just "blundered", went through many rounds of negotiations, and started building, while genuinely not being aware that the US labor market is different from the Chinese one.