Chinese Veteran soldiers to work at iPhone factory

Foxconn is the biggest employer in Zhengzhou and a top export company. By September 2022, it had exported more than 261bn yuan worth of products. China wants retired military staff to help boost production at the world’s largest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou. Output at the Foxconn factory has been hit by a local Covid outbreak. The call came from a Veteran Affairs Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army in the same province as the plant. Do you think that this is forced labour by the Chinese government?