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The military theorist Carl von Clausewitz long ago recognized the delusion of reducing war to a kind of algebra. War, as he understood it, is never merely calculation. It is saturated with passion, uncertainty and political purpose. The algebra has grown more sophisticated. But the delusion is just as dangerous today as it was in the 19th century.
~ Yonatan Touval via The New York Times

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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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