{"id":58199,"date":"2023-09-08T21:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/china-iphone-ban-government-state-owned-firms-workers-apple-us"},"modified":"2023-09-08T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:32:42","slug":"china-reportedly-extends-iphone-ban-to-more-workers-as-tensions-with-us-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58199","title":{"rendered":"China reportedly extends iPhone ban to more workers as tensions with US rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple shares fall as local government and state-owned firms latest to face restrictions on devices at work<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government has reportedly expanded its ban of iPhones to local government workers and state-owned companies, a day after it emerged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/07\/china-iphone-ban-reports-apple-shares-stocks-fall\">central government employees<\/a> were forbidden from bringing the devices to work.<\/p>\n<p>Several agencies had begun instructing employees not to bring iPhones to work and the ban was expected to be further extended, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-09-07\/china-plans-to-expand-iphone-ban-to-some-state-backed-firms-in-blow-to-apple?sref=Xl91GI8N\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>. Nikkei reported at least one state-owned company had told its employees that anyone working with trade secrets could not bring their iPhones, Apple Watches or AirPods into work from next month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/china-iphone-ban-government-state-owned-firms-workers-apple-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple shares fall as local government and state-owned firms latest to face restrictions on devices at workChina\u2019s government has reportedly expanded its ban of iPhones to local government workers and state-owned companies, a day after it emerged centra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[690,41,6,50,557,689,1004,2771,58,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-international-trade","category-iphone","category-mobile-phones","category-smartphones","category-technology","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions\/58200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}