Why Are These Top U.S. Companies Still Offshoring Jobs to China?
The top Manchurian megacorporations sacrificing national security and fueling unemployment at home.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not only history’s greatest mass murderer, with 500 million victims and counting, but its viciously dictatorial regime is America’s number one international enemy. Moreover, China has spent decades luring U.S. corporations with cheap labor and less stringent safety regulations to ship jobs away from the USA.
Besides infiltrating our government, manipulating America's youth on TikTok, stealing Western industry and technology, compromising U.S. universities and businesses, establishing secretive police stations here, and bribing media and politicians, the CCP has also worked assiduously to transfer our industry to China. This gives the CCP the advantage of controlling vital parts and minerals for our technology, international shipping, clothing, and more. For instance, the CCP is responsible for over 90 percent of global rare earths processing, essential to the high-tech chips on which our society depends. And as of last year, 97 percent of clothing sold in the United States came from overseas, with China as one of the top foreign sources. Furthermore, eight out of 10 gantry cranes in use at U.S. ports are Chinese-made. There are many more examples, but you see the problem of being dependent on our biggest enemy. And from the perspective of the average U.S. worker, there is the added catastrophe of so many jobs going to Chinese Communists, while millions of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed.
The economy, including affordability and the job market, remains the foremost issue for Americans ahead of the midterm elections. Workers worry about keeping their jobs, finding new jobs, or having an income that keeps pace with inflation.
The Trump administration has improved job numbers, but as of August/September 2026, U.S. Fiscal Clock used government data to put the number of unemployed Americans at seven million (or over four percent), with up to 13 million altogether either unemployed or underemployed. A huge part of the problem is how much industry the United States, once the industrial engine of the world, has shipped to China. Perhaps that’s because, as Wage.is reported in February, the average “minimum wage in the United States is 94% higher than in China when converted to USD,” while U.S. monthly average gross salaries are higher by a four-to-one ratio.
In short, U.S. companies sacrifice America's national security and national prosperity for cheaper wages. The CCP’s Company Law requires all companies in China to promote CCP goals and host CCP cells. And the most financially successful U.S. companies are willing to do that, to further the projects of our worst enemy, rather than pay higher wages and provide better working conditions as would be necessary if they moved back to the USA. The hosts of “The China Show” on YouTube often discuss the very low workplace standards and widespread poverty in China, pointing out the difference between operations in America and operations in China. Executives and top shareholders of the offshored companies make fortunes, but "We the People" in America are stuck vying for a much smaller number of potential jobs. The U.S. unemployment rate would be lower if offshoring were not so popular.
Top Ten Lists
There is more than one way to classify the biggest American corporations, and this article analyzes companies from two different powerhouse lists. By market capitalization, or “the total value of a company’s outstanding shares of stock,” which is how Economics Insider ranked them for 2025, the top 10 megacorporations are: Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Broadcom, and Walmart. By revenue, which is how NewsNation ranked the list this year, the top ten are: Amazon, Walmart, UnitedHealth Group, Apple, Alphabet, CVS Health, Berkshire Hathaway, McKesson, ExxonMobil, and Cencora. You have probably noticed that most of the top U.S. megacorporations are in tech or healthcare, both of which industries are very lucrative and very woke. Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Science usually support lefty politicians and policies at the expense of their own customers, but they’re so massive and so entangled with government bureaucracy that they keep making money anyway. The censorship industrial complex and COVID lockdown/mandate insanity of the Biden era proved that.
On the market capitalization list, Apple is number one. Apple has become so entrenched in the Communist country of China that former Apple reporter Patrick McGee wrote a new book titled Apple in China, which explains “how Apple allowed itself to become dependent on China for a huge percentage of its manufacturing, making it vulnerable and unwittingly laying the groundwork for the Asian superpower to rival the US in technological expertise.” Apple’s iPhones and other popular products are the result of abusive labor practices and huge factories in China. The Foxconn iPhone factory (Apple’s contractor) became international news during the COVID-19 era after workers rioted over the horrific conditions, triggering mass protests in 2022 that ultimately ended with a CCP crackdown so brutal that critics called it a “Tiananmen 2.0.” The Irish Times reported last year that conditions continue to be bad at the iPhone factory. CCP state media still brags about Apple’s continued expansion in China.
McGee’s book highlights the national security dangers and competitive edge for China that came out of Apple’s greedy, deliberate offshoring. But besides the national market impact for America, many Americans miss out on jobs that go to the semi-slaves in Chinese factories. Business Insider, using numbers from Apple’s Chinese-language site in 2023, reported that Apple has a whopping one million employees in China, with another four million jobs tied to its manufacturing/supply chain there. Just for a little hypothetical exercise, compare current unemployment numbers in America—seven million—with the number of jobs due to Apple in China—five million. But everyone knows why Apple prefers China, because SoftHandTech reported in 2025: “Apple workers in China are typically paid around $3.15 to $4.54 per hour, which is above the minimum wage in the country but relatively low considering the cost of living in urban areas.” That’s way below the American minimum wage, which is anywhere between $7.25 and $17 an hour.
China Enthusiasts, New/Returning Footholds
It would be hard to find an American businessman more enthusiastic about the CCP than Tesla’s Elon Musk, who even earned praise—and a tax-exempt status—from the CCP in 2022 by making the outrageous claim that the genocidal Communist regime should seize control and free Taiwan. Musk has written official CCP state propaganda seeking increased Chinese investment, built new factories in China, elevated his China operations executive to Tesla's second-highest spot, called China “awesome” in August, and is currently raving about the glories of Chinese AI chip technology. Tesla absolutely relies on China for its manufacturing. Like Apple, Tesla had a COVID-era workplace scandal after the Observer in 2022 revealed abusive worker conditions in the Tesla Shanghai factory. CnEVPost cited Tesla’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings in 2024 to state that the company employed about 20,000 people in China, though there were some layoffs this year. Yicai Global reported in 2023 that the average Tesla China factory employee made around $1,386 a month, or about $16,600 a year. Whereas Payscale puts the average Tesla employee's base salary in America at $108,000.
Amazon, the top megacorporation by revenue, no longer has an e-commerce platform in China, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still desperate to kiss up to the CCP and make a comeback. Times News Now reported in April that Amazon launched its first Chinese global warehousing and distribution center in Shenzhen. Essentially, Amazon wants to entice local sellers to use the center to cut their (the sellers’) costs. More ominously, Amazon aims to assist Chinese sellers in pushing their goods globally. So, this U.S. company is actively engaged in boosting China’s market reach. Of course, Amazon already sells a lot of Chinese-made goods on its U.S. and other e-commerce platforms. Amazon does not seem to have released any numbers on how many people it employs in China, but it is obviously planning to expand operations there once again. Why won’t Amazon invest that money and effort in the United States instead?
Walmart, which until this year was the biggest U.S. company by revenue, and which still ranks in second place, brags about having Chinese operations since 1996. “We delight customers through nearly 400 stores and clubs as well as multiple e-commerce platforms. Walmart China focuses on nurturing local talent. Chinese associates make up 99.9% of the total workforce,” the company discloses. While that webpage does not have a specific number of employees, GameofJobs.org estimates that around 100,000 people work for Walmart China, and CCP state propaganda excitedly reported an increase of nearly 22 percent for Walmart’s net sales in China at the end of last year. That’s 100,000 jobs and billions of dollars that are benefiting Chinese Communists rather than Americans.
Like Apple and Walmart, Microsoft has spent years investing in China, and boasts about how its founder Bill Gates—who called the global rise of the CCP a “huge win for the world”—founded a Beijing office more than three decades ago. “Today, our most complete subsidiary and largest R&D center outside the United States is in China… Microsoft boasts a robust partner ecosystem with 17,000 partners,” the company declares proudly. Microsoft did reportedly just lay off hundreds of China workers and has closed some offices and an AI lab there, but still the estimates are that Microsoft employs between 9,000 and 10,000 people in China. Gates has tried to push the CCP’s Orwellian social credit system on other countries, including the United States.
Alphabet/Google does not have any big office in China nor are most of its primary services allowed there behind the “Great Firewall” the CCP uses to restrict its subjects’ online access. The mega-corporation does still have a presence in China, however, as PixelsTech reported in 2025, “primarily supporting local enterprises and developers despite consumer service limitations. Key operations include sales and advertising for global outreach, widespread adoption of the open-source Android OS by local manufacturers, and dedicated developer support platforms like Google Developers China. The company also engages in AI research, offers Google Cloud services indirectly through partnerships, and makes strategic investments in Chinese startups.” Furthermore, many Google products are manufactured in China, meaning lots of manufacturing jobs necessary for Google’s business go to Chinese workers—instead of Americans. Revelio Labs estimates that just under 21 percent of Google’s 191,000 employees are in South Asia, which includes China. The average salary for a North American Google employee is almost $200,000, while the average South Asian Google employee salary is about $18,000. That’s why Google prefers to hire non-Americans.
Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) has had a rocky relationship with the CCP over the years, but in 2023 it established a foothold again in China through a deal on virtual reality headsets with Tencent, which the CCP partially owns. But this year, the CCP did block Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus. As of 2024, Meta’s ad business with China was booming, bringing in $18 billion in revenue. In exchange for that boost, Meta apparently overlooked several billion dollars’ worth of scam ads from China. About 12 percent of Meta’s global workforce of 81,000 is in South Asia. Why does Meta like to ship jobs overseas? Its average salary for North American employees is $203,000 but its average South Asia salary is $8,000, according to Revelio Labs.
Up through this year, Broadcom has been making hardware for CCP-backed data centers in China, though the Financial Times reported that the CCP is considering switching to a domestic provider. Broadcom semiconductors, partly thanks to its partnerships and subsidiary acquisitions, have been a major part of China’s AI rush. As with other companies on this list, an exact headcount for Broadcom employees in China was not available, but about 29 percent of its global workforce of around 37,000 is in South Asia.
Nvidia operates in China on a smaller scale than Microsoft does, and U.S. sanctions and tariffs have caused the CCP to drop the hammer on Nvidia’s AI chip business in China as of summer 2026. At the start of 2025, All About Industries reported that Nvidia was increasing its investment and hiring in China, with employee numbers set to go up by a thousand between 2024 and 2025. Deals between the Trump administration and the CCP have allowed Nvidia more access to the China market again, which seems incredibly counterproductive for U.S. workers, though Nvidia’s bid to expand in China seems to be heading for failure.
ExxonMobil is very proud to have ties to China going back to the nineteenth century and to have returned, after the CCP takeover, to the Chinese market in the late 1970s. ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co. Ltd.'s headquarters are in Shanghai, which has been the scene of some of the most infamous CCP crackdowns on freedom. ExxonMobil (China) has about 1,500 employees, according to a Datanyze link recently removed from the internet.
McKesson does not currently have job openings in China, but it does employ people inside the country. McKesson China retails and sells pharmaceuticals. But Revelio Labs does estimate only about one percent of McKesson’s employees are in South Asia. Still, why operate in China at all?
As for UnitedHealth Group, it has operations in China and an extensive privacy policy for Chinese applicants, which is rather meaningless because it admits at the end that it will disclose private data as required by law (the CCP has an Orwellian social credit system). UnitedHealth Group has about 390,000 employees worldwide, 23.6 percent of whom are in South Asia. The average UnitedHealth Group salary for North Americans is around $90,000, while in South Asia it’s $7,000.
CVS Health does not have a direct presence in China, though Chinese company Alibaba has stolen CVS’s business model for its own benefit. The Chinese-made drugs that CVS sells, however, have come under scrutiny for unusually high incidences of unsafe manufacturing practices. If healthcare companies moved drug manufacturing back to America, maybe this would be less of a problem, and it would create more jobs here.
Interestingly, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company conglomerate sold its whole stake in BYD, China’s EV giant, last year. Buffett has made billions off Chinese investments in the past, from a lot of investment that should have gone to American companies. At the present time, Berkshire Hathaway does not have any confirmed direct investments in China-based companies. About 3.4 percent of Berkshire Hathaway’s 393,200 employees are in South Asia.
Healthcare giant Cencora, the last U.S. company on the top 10 revenue list, operates in the Chinese market. While an exact number of Chinese employees was unavailable, Revelio Labs reports that 9.6 percent of Cencora’s workforce of about 51,300 people at the present time is in South Asia, which includes China. The average salary for a North American Cencora employee is about $70,000, while in South Asia it’s closer to $10,000.
The Takeaways
There are three obvious takeaways from all this information. Firstly, almost every U.S. megacorporation has shipped jobs and resources to America’s number one enemy, China. Secondly, this offshoring helps fuel unemployment in America. Thirdly, megacorporations offshore because they want to pay excessively less money to workers in China and other South Asian countries. Or, in other words, U.S. companies are backstabbing Americans and exploiting Chinese workers to boost their profits—and help the genocidal CCP.
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