China has got a massive consumer market, an unmatched manufacturing ecosystem with zero labor disputes among other things, minerals, arguably the most stable (in terms of violence, unrest, strikes, etc.) regions in the world, and more.

They have got anyone by their balls who remotely wants to sell anything in China.

John Cena (famous wrestler, entertainer) recently apologized to Chinese people after calling Taiwan a country [0].

The companies and people who never go beyond their own selfish self-interests, will keep kowtowing to China (and KSA as well).

I don't judge this. I possibly would do the same. But I am not a hypocrite.

Apple used Chinese slave labor [1], Cook agreed to work with Chinese propaganda arm [2], but fired a techie for writing a satire [3].

All actors and actresses (who says nothing against China, where two or three decades ago, the whole of Hollywood was very pro-Tibet) preach freedom, self-empowerment or whatever woke thing is hot in that year, and yet choose regularly to censor and/or change content based on China's demand [4].

Intel is doing nothing new, and we will see this trend continue at least for a while now.

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/actor-john-cena-apologize....

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428899/apple-suppliers-...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/apples-tim-...

[3]: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...

[4]: https://www.cnet.com/features/marvel-is-censoring-films-for-...