Apple in China
The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
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Patrick McGee examines how Apple’s manufacturing relationship with China became central to the company’s business and to wider economic competition.
The book follows the growth of that partnership and the dependencies it created, connecting corporate decisions with industrial capacity and political power.
It brings the China sequence into the business world, showing how the choices of a single influential company can illuminate larger questions about interdependence.
Why I include it
Apple’s commercial success and its geopolitical vulnerabilities are bound together in this account. I appreciate McGee’s attention to that dependence and what it means for trade, labor, and national security, without reducing the relationship to a simple argument for or against either country.
