As the lapdogs barking for the US-Marcos regime capitalize on the South China Sea dispute, its officials are busy opening an “economic security zone” under the Pax Silica framework being rushed by the US. This July, the regime announced Foxconn as the “anchor investor,” or key financier, for the enclave it plans to build. Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., is considered as the biggest electronics manufacturer assembling products for Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Sony.

Foxconn workers have long suffered extreme abuse, overwork, and inhuman working conditions in China and India. Working 80-100 hours of overtime a month is common. Workers are forbidden to speak or use the toilet outside the set schedule. It also employs students as “interns” on pay below minimum wage, assigning them work unrelated to their studies.

The company in India blocked the formation of independent unions. The company pays workers slave wages and does not provide decent housing.

Foxconn will also be given special incentives, tax breaks, and other favors. The agreement already reached between the US and the Philippines waives rent payment for its first two years of operation here.

It will also benefit from at least 20 wells now being rushed in three villages in Tarlac, which will suck up the water resources of indigenous people and farmers in the area. The same goes for the grid now being built to supply the enclave’s 5-gigawatt power demand.