In contrast, other recent China-related PR crises such as complaints by former workers at Gucci China that the brand was operating essentially a sweatshop in southern China remained largely localized and were less widely reported in the global English-language press.
The PR nightmare ended on Sunday when Hon Hai chose not to pursue the case any further, according to China's official Xinhua news agency, and was capped off with a mutual apology between the firm and newspaper for all the trouble that the lawsuit had caused.