I am familiar with how China operates. Being close with the govt/CCP in China is standard practice. So you must also be aware that Foxconn has come under very

I am familiar with how China operates. Being close with the govt/CCP in China is standard practice. So you must also be aware that Foxconn has come under very intense media scrutiny in _China_ since a couple of years ago. Consider this sequence of events: [1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Foxconn-Sues-Two-Journalists-for-Disclosing-the-Poor-Working-Conditions-34226.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Foxconn-Sues-Two-Journalists-... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chinese_labour_unrest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chinese_labour_unrest [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07foxconn.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07foxconn.... Of course this observation doesn't depend on Foxconn being Taiwanese. But the two are not necessarily unrelated given the increasingly nationalist trajectory of Chinese policy. And more in response to the nature of Foxconn's guanxi with the govt, no amount of it can save Foxconn from uniform wage increases or increasingly negative _Chinese_ media coverage.