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Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company (2025) by Patrick McGee examines how Apple’s deep integration with China—spanning design, assembly, and investment—helped skyrocket both its own global dominance and China’s manufacturing prowess. From Steve Jobs’ early shift in the late 1990s to offload production to China, to Tim Cook’s aggressive reinvestment—over $275 billion between 2016 and 2021—Apple orchestrated a massive transfer of know-how, training millions of Chinese workers and building an intricate “red supply chain” . The result was a symbiotic-yet-risky arrangement: Apple gained scale, China gained technology, and both parties became increasingly entwined.

McGee portrays this relationship as a Faustian bargain. Apple’s reliance on China led to political compromises—censorship compliance, data localization, and muted labor reforms—while amplifying its vulnerability to geopolitical shocks. The book chronicles how China leveraged Apple’s investments to advance its “Made in China 2025” strategy, nurturing competitors like Huawei and BYD. As tensions rose under Xi Jinping and amid U.S.–China trade frictions, Apple began diversifying to India and Vietnam—but McGee warns that disentangling from China’s unique ecosystem will be long, costly, and its dominance might never return¹.