Across his nearly fifteen-year-long tenure, Tim Cook transformed Apple’s China relationship from a manufacturing arrangement into something closer to a strategic partnership with the CCP. He flew to Beijing repeatedly to meet senior officials, positioning Apple as a committed long-term partner in China’s technology economy. He deepened manufacturing concentration rather than hedging against it, binding Apple’s production capacity ever more tightly to Foxconn’s Zhengzhou complex and the dense supplier ecosystem surrounding it.
~ Isaac Stone Fish via American Affairs

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