How Apple Fueled China's Economic and Technological Rise
We talk to McGee about his new book “Apple in China” and the threats the company faces from AI and the Trump administration.
June 6, 2025
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How Apple Fueled China's Economic and Technological Rise
Summary
The prevailing narrative about Apple in China over the last two decades is that the Cupertino company took advantage of low wages and weak labor laws to ship out close to half a billion devices per year. Journalist Patrick McGee says that narrative isn’t wrong, but it misses “the biggest piece of the puzzle: that Beijing allowed Apple’s activities so that China could exploit Apple and become a tech powerhouse in its own right.” We talk to McGee about his new book “Apple in China” and the threats the company faces from AI and the Trump administration.
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Patrick McGee, San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times - author, "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company"
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