24-05-2025
How Apple's lucrative bet on China boosted the country's tech sector
As the world's first $3 trillion publicly traded company, Apple is an unusual kind of political actor — endlessly resourced, capable of shaping a nation's industrial policy but still buffeted by the great forces of statecraft, of history. Apple may have the gross domestic product of a small nation, but it doesn't have an army; it must play by others' rules.
