I never understand why everyone is so surprised by this
Corporations do billions of dollars worth of trade with China because the Chinese can really bend or ignore the rules of worker safety and use cheap labor either in their country or somewhere else. Then the Chinese skim off the tech, knowledge and information to make cheap copies for even lower costs for themselves and cut out the original to make more money for themselves. They did it with every dollar store product ever produced, with cars, motorcycles, anything with an engine and now they're doing it with CPUs