Please try to understand what I've said. Foxconn sells everything what it produces to Apple. Takes it money. And that money stays in China. Afterwards Apple sells that product and makes money with it. The money that Apple makes isn't written in China's trade surplus. The money that Foxconn makes is written in China's trade surplus. And since that money stays in China, there is nothing wrong about it.
Let me repeat this simple fact again. 100% of the money from the production of Apple products stays in China. Apple pays for what Foxconn produces. Buys the product. And sells it. What Apple sells is not written as China's trade surplus. What Foxconn sells is written as a trade surplus.
Don't suppose it. Because it's not.
How & Where iPhone Is Made: Comparison Of Apple’s Manufacturing Process | CompareCamp.com
In iPhone 6, there was 349 companies from China providing parts for Apple, compared to 139 companies from Japan and 60 companies from US. Now of course not all those companies are owned by Chinese citizens. However the trend of Chinese companies owned by Chinese entrepreneurs providing parts for Apple is also emerging.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d70fca52-2691-11e3-9dc0-00144feab7de.html#axzz3x91jO26S
The number of Chinese companies supplying Apple with components such as batteries has more than doubled from eight in 2011 to 16 this year, according to Apple’s published lists of suppliers and research from the brokerage CLSA.
The phone you've bought is not sold to you by a subsidary in China. It's sold by Apple. Apple sells the phone. No Apple China. This is the point you can't understand. Foxconn produces the product, sells it to Apple. And Apple sells it to you. This is how outsourced manufacturing business works.
Think of it like this. You design an electronic product. A camera for example. You give the design to a Chinese company and say you need a 1000 units. Chinese company produces that camera with the design and specs you've provided and they say you owe them 100$ per unit. You buy the cameras from the Chinese company. That part is written to Chinese trade surplus.
You get the cameras. You sell them 200$ per units. That 200$ has nothing to do with China or Chinese company.
Profit at iPhone Assembler Foxconn Rose 22% Last Year - WSJ
Foxconn's revenues 130 billion dollars. They've made 4 billion dollar profit.
Apple revenues 233.7 billion dollars. They've made 50 billion dollar profit.
Now you say, like a broken record, that 130 billion dollars that Foxconn makes is something that should be undermined. I don't see a single reason to undermine this 130 billion dollars. This is an economic activity. You don't adjust your trade figures based on profitability. Everyone knows that profitability is relatively low in Chinese companies because of low value addition. That still doesn't hide the fact that those guys are making a lot business activities.
As I've said before, profitability is something completely different from the revenues.
On another note, China is one of the main consumers of the Apple products. Do you know that each Apple product that a Chinese national buys is regarded as an import? Because technically that product is sold to that individual by Apple Inc. That's why this is extremely hard to determine if there is an actual effect of Apple Inc. or another foreign company that has the ability to actually to contribute meaningful amounts of money to 500 billion dollars trade surplus.
Plus as I've told you before, you take a look at current account surplus to alleviate the effect of foreign company's activity in a country.
The World Factbook
China is No. 2 behind of Germany with 219 billion dollars of account surplus. That money, is stayed in China to it's last penny.
China has 3.3 trillion dollars of foreign reserves, and it peaked around 4 trillion dollars. Where did this money come from then, if Chinese businesses weren't profitable enough and all the trade surplus were actually "taken by" foreign companies?
You know what, it's really exhausting to debunk all those Western media non-sense. I'm a single human being and they have a lot of pen for hire. Go on and believe what you wanna believe. Your belief wouldn't change anything about the world and how things work. You might one day face the truth when China buys half of your countries' exports and pays it in RMB. Because trust me, that will happen.