Patrick McGee: How Apple trained China to be a world power
Patrick McGee was the Financial Times's principal Apple reporter from 2019 to 2023. In his new book Apple in China: The Capture of The World's Greatest Company, he contends that China allowed Apple to exploit them so they could in turn exploit Apple, making it impossible for the tech giant to extract itself from the country.
Apple denies the claims in his book.
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