The Chinese hand in the Wistron vandalism is glaring

Companies shifting from China to India has been a great cause of alarm for the Communist country. Thanks to the strained trade relations that have been affecting China’s economy, it has been losing many of its manufacturing facilities. More and more companies are shifting to India and making it their Asian manufacturing base. This has clearly not boded well with China.

In its own back handed way, China has been trying to drive iPhone manufacturing giant Wistron out from India and is trying to repeat history like it did with Sterlite. It is to be noted that Wistron, along with several other iPhone part manufacturers, had been based in Taiwan until early in 2020.

Wistron, which set up an iPhone manufacturing unit in Karnataka’s Kolar district, increased the number of employees from 2,000 in June to 12,000 in October. Operations had also scaled up in the last few months. But, the company’s manufacturing unit was attacked on Saturday morning with many unidentified people infiltrating under the guise of employees.

This sudden attack on the facility raised serious doubts about the Communist Party’s involvement after the Karnataka police arrested a local president of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) – a student body of Communist Party of India in connection with the violence.

According to the local police, Srikanth, the taluk (tehsil) President of the SFI, is said to have coordinated the  violence. He had apparently circulated WhatsApp messages to instigate the workers. The police had arrested Srikanth for investigation were quoted saying in media reports “Srikanth was detained. We are questioning his involvement in instigating the violence and also bringing in people outside of the company’s employees into the plant which was vandalized,” the police said. However, Srikanth was later released by the police.

It is to be noted that the Communist Party-linked trade unions like All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), a trade union arm of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation), has already started their activities claiming to be batting for workers’ rights. They are leaving no stone unturned to prove that entire episode is revolt by the workers due to the non-payment of salary.

The company’s current pay scale has actually been well above India’s average wage for unskilled manufacturers. It pays ₹ 22,000 for an eight hour shift per worker. Several employees of the organization note that the working environment is also very conducive.

What leads to the conclusion of Chinese hand at play after a journalist from the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece put out a tweet.

“This is a potential risk when manufacturers consider moving their production lines out of #China where they have the most stable labour market supporting the nation to become the largest manufacturing hub. Does Terry Gou from #Foxconn, regret about moving those #iPhone lines to #India,” tweeted Qingqing Chen, a reporter of Global Times, the mouthpiece of Chinese Communist Party.

As previously exposed by The Commune, the Chinese media house Xinhua has already put the wheels in motion in terms of influencing major trade decisions in other countries of the world by tying up with the media outlets in the respective countries. In this case, several global media giants have come out most of the international media portals, many of which receive billions of dollars from CCP and its affiliate companies in the advertisement, were quick to pick up the story. The news spread like wildfire in the global media and many financial newspapers like Bloomberg, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal picked up the story instantly. Apple too announced a probe in the matter and dispatched a team to investigate the incident.

There is a clear case to substantiate the fact Communists (both from within India and from China) are indeed at the helm of the attack trying to malign India’s image as a safe manufacturing destination.