You may, but might I mention those are different circumstances? In one case, it's a foreign company and a government leaders making grandiose statements with little action.
In this example, it's a publicly traded US company that's making the move to control their own supply chain that was affected by foreign manufacturing. They stated they intend to break ground this summer. Could you wait a few months to see?
Yes, the state of Wisconsin sunk some money into infrastructure in the area, but that just means infrastructure got built in Wisconsin. That's not profit for Foxconn.
Quite a bit of the infrastructure goes nowhere -it only benefits a factory built out at that location. As a Chicago resident who sometimes visits Milwaukee, I will personally note that the interstate construction was horrible and ripped up roads that had been completed just a few years prior.
To say nothing of the people that lost their homes to eminent domain.
Foxconn is known for the, uh, con, so a lot of industry insiders weren't surprised this entire thing played out the way it did.
Peloton has a very real financial incentive to do this. Treadmills and bikes are HEAVY, and as they called out in the article the demand has outstripped supply and rush shipping from overseas has been extremely expensive for them.
Foxconn's reasoning was essentially: we don't want to be caught up in Trump's trade war so we'll say we're building this factory and get a bunch of tax breaks.
As a midwesterner, I'll believe it when it's built. Otherwise to me it's just another means of washing bribe money somehow.