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#11 Patrick McGee: How China Captured Apple
Apple doesn’t just manufacture in China. It helped build the system that now holds it hostage.
In this episode of The Next Best, I speak with Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China, about one of the most important – and least understood – geopolitical entanglements of our time.
• How did Apple become dependent on the Chinese Communist Party?
• Why can’t it simply move production elsewhere?
• And what does this tell us about authoritarian leverage in a globalized world?
We explore the rise of China’s manufacturing dominance, the scale of Apple’s exposure, and why…
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