Discussing Patrick’s new book Apple in China

Named by both The New York Times and The Economist as one of the best books of the year, this impeccable reporting portrays how Apple allowed itself to become dependent on China for a huge percentage of its manufacturing, making it vulnerable and unwittingly laying the groundwork for the Asian superpower to rival the US in technological expertise.

Patrick McGee was the Financial Time’s principal Apple reporter from 2019 to 2023, having first worked for the newspaper in Hong Kong in 2013.

Ker Gibbs has lived in Asia for most of the last 30 years and is the author of Selling to China.