Apple in China (2026)

A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2025 SABEW Best in Business Book Awards for Business Reporting, this updated edition includes a new epilogue. What if the greatest business success story of the twenty-first century concealed the Wests gravest mistake? For two decades, Apple poured billions into China, training millions of workers and building the most advanced supply and manufacturing system in history. Those same investments, however, transferred knowledge, skills and power, giving China the tools to challenge Americas dominance and placing Apple at the centre of a new Cold War between two superpowers. Based on hundreds of exclusive interviews, Patrick McGees gripping expos reveals Apples vulnerability for the first time and shows how one companys triumph inadvertently reshaped the global balance of power.