Smearing China with the so-called "human rights" issue and then engaging in so-called product and raw material boycotts are routines often used in the West, and such routines have been used more than once when targeting China's Xinjiang. In the first half of this year, Western companies led by Sweden's H&M and Nike in the United States created a wave of chaos, but they did not affect the export of Xinjiang products, but their own sales were greatly reduced, and their stock prices fell sharply. But what I didn't expect was that Intel in the United States recently came back to repeat itself, and fortunately, after being "scolded" by Chinese netizens, it chose to apologize as quickly as possible. But it is not difficult to find that the reality behind Intel's apology is that one party is afraid of losing the Chinese market, and the other party cannot do without Intel's chip, nothing more, everyone understands.
According to the Observer Network reported on December 24, at the Foreign Ministry's regular press conference, spokesman Zhao Lijian responded to the "apology letter" released by Intel. Zhao Lijian said that the Chinese side has taken note of Intel's apology and hopes that the relevant enterprises can "respect the facts" and "distinguish between right and wrong", because there is no so-called "human rights problem" in Xinjiang, which is the "lie of the century" concocted by the United States, the purpose of which is to "smear China's image", "undermine Xinjiang's stability", "curb China's development", as for some enterprises to resist high-quality and inexpensive Xinjiang products, "that is their loss".
Just recently, Intel sent an email to suppliers, in which Intel asked suppliers not to purchase products from Xinjiang, use services from Xinjiang, or even hire employees in the region, saying that the move was due to so-called "human rights problems" in Xinjiang.
After Intel's email to suppliers was exposed, it can be described as "a stone stirring up a thousand waves", almost immediately caused the anger of the majority of Chinese netizens, many people flocked to Intel China's Weibo, left a message below, angrily criticized Intel Company for "picking up the bowl to eat, putting down the bowl to scold the mother", and said that Intel "has a brain problem".
In fact, Chinese netizens basically scolded the idea, because although Intel is an international chip giant, his main revenue is in China, saying that Intel "picks up the bowl to eat, puts down the bowl to scold the mother", absolutely there is no problem, realistically speaking, this is the case. However, it should be pointed out that Intel is indeed worthy of being an "international giant", and when it was besieged by Chinese netizens and the Chinese government had not yet officially expressed its position, Intel showed a strong "desire to survive" and publicly apologized to China as quickly as possible for the previous letter to suppliers.
Intel said in the apology letter that the reason why it was "xinjiang-related" in the letter to the supplier was mainly because this is the provision of US law, and Intel as a US enterprise must also comply with it, and it needs to go through this process, which does not represent the company's position. Intel means that it is to complete the task of the US government, because Washington has introduced a domestic law to sanction China, intel can not not abide by the US law, but in fact, the heart does not agree with the US government's behavior. This may sound contradictory, but when you think about it, it does make sense.
So why does Intel apologize to China, is it really just a "conscience discovery"? Of course not, to put it bluntly, this is because the Chinese market is Intel's god of wealth, and Intel has to sweep tens of billions of dollars from the Chinese market every year.
If you accidentally offend the god of wealth, you can only immediately bow down, saying "sorry", "not intentional", a letter of a few hundred words, you can save Intel's market in China, you can avoid being "sanctioned" by the Chinese government, which is too cost-effective, completely satisfied with the "face-loving" character of Chinese people. In terms of calculation, this is the most expensive apology letter in the world, which can be said to be "a thousand words". But don't be busy angry, to tell the truth, the reason why we easily accepted Intel's apology, mainly because China is also inseparable from Intel's chip, which is not like clothing, luxury goods, perfumes or whatever, dispensable, Intel's chip we can't leave, so both sides have steps, one pretends to apologize, one pretends to accept, nothing more.