As an example, many years ago I worked for Motorola. We designed cell phones in Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey. All manufacturing was in a Motorola owned plant in Tianjin (outside of Beijing). We enjoyed Chinese labor rates, and it was all good. We also used a contract manufacturer for some stuff called Foxconn. Foxconn took what they learned from Motorola and sold their expertise to Apple, who never built a Chinese manufacturing facility. Today, Foxconn is basically Apples sole manufacturer, but they also manufacture products for other customers, as well as make their own products (i.e pentium motherboards and I assume other phone hardware suppliers). As an American consumer, everything electronic I buy is likely made by someone with a relationship to Foxconn.
