Trump wants it, but India is doing it


A construction site for Foxconn, the longtime Taiwanese manufacturer for Apple, in Bengaluru, India. — Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times

A NEW iPhone factory in an out-of-the-way corner of India looks like a spaceship from another planet.

Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles most of the world’s iPhones for Apple, has landed amid the boulders and millet fields of Devanahalli, in India’s Karnataka state.

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