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The tech giant Apple, lured by China's seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor, spent hundreds of billions of dollars to create the world's most sophisticated supply chain, centered on the People's Republic. This enabled Apple to build the iPhone & other iconic products - in staggering volume & for enormous profit. Yet without intending to, Apple also built an advanced electronics industry within China, only to discover that its massive investments in technology upgrades had inadvertently given Beijing a power that could be weaponized.
In Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (Scribner, May 2025), technology journalist Patrick McGee tells the story of how Apple tied its fortunes to America's biggest rival, transforming both company & country. Drawing on interviews, emails between executives & internal memos, McGee highlights the characters who were instrumental in Apple's ascent, including the Mormon missionary who established the Apple Store in China; the "Gang of Eight" executives tasked with placating Beijing; & an idealistic veteran whose hopes of improving the lives of factory workers were crushed by both Cupertino's operational demands & Xi Jinping's war on civil society. James Fallows called the book "the best on-scene detailed case-study of how the United States & Chinese are intertwined." It was named among the top books of the year by The Economist, The New Yorker, & The New York Times, was shortlisted for the SABEW Best Business Book of the Year Award, & is on the China Books Review bestseller list.
Register now to hear Patrick McGee talk about the story of how Apple became dependent on China for its manufacturing, & what that means for China's technology rivalry with the United States. The conversation will be moderated by Zeyi Yang, senior writer at WIRED magazine. Copies of the book will be on sale, with the author available to sign them.
This event is presented by China Books Review, co-published by The Wire China.
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