‘Biggest Untold Story in Tech’: Explosive Book Reveals How Apple Sold Out America to China
14th May 2025
Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee has released a gripping new book that meticulously exposes Apple’s deeply troubling ties with China, revealing how these connections fueled the communist regime’s rise to a global manufacturing powerhouse.
In an interview with The Free Press founder Bari Weiss, McGee revealed key insights from his new book, Apple in China, detailing Apple’s complex relationship with the country.
Presently, approximately 155 million Americans own an iPhone – a remarkable figure that McGee contends would have been unattainable without Apple’s substantial investments in China.
“I think it’s fairly straightforward that China is the only place on the planet that has the tech competence in terms of manufacturing capability, certainly the price, the cost, the quantity, the scale,” McGee told Weiss. My novel argument is that it has those skills because Apple built them there, right? It’s not that China offered something to Apple. Apple didn’t find these skills in China; it shipped people over by the plane load and created them.”
Oh, I don’t think it’s as bad as all that. China has a lot of people, and a lot of those people are very smart and very educated. If you want to put a thousand engineers on a project suddenly, it’s easier to do that in China than almost anywhere else in the world. That’s a tremendous attraction for businesses that need to ramp up production quickly or shift production in a different direction quickly.