Apple is reportedly telling a few of its manufacturing contractors that it desires to extend manufacturing exterior of China, pointing to COVID lockdowns as one cause for the shift. India and Vietnam are excessive on the checklist of web sites for potential manufacturing will increase, The Wall Road Journal mentioned in a Saturday report based mostly on data from nameless sources. Over 90% of Apple’s merchandise are made in China by contractors, the Journal famous, however tensions between China’s communist authorities and the US make the corporate’s reliance on China dangerous, and COVID lockdowns in China have led to supply-chain...