“Absolutely riveting. An extraordinary story, expertly told—and one that has important implications for Apple, for tech, and for global geoeconomics.”

"To call this book a page-turner is almost to diminish its importance. It is a once-in-a-generation read."

“Apple in China captures every twist and turn of the tech giant’s off-kilter and decidedly off-script relationship with the authoritarian state. What will surprise many is how China ensnared a corporate titan by matching and then surpassing its knack for ruthless efficiency and global dominance.”

"Deeply researched, disturbing, and enlightening, Apple in China reveals how Apple enabled China's rise, seemingly at the cost of its own future."

"Patrick McGee shows us how Apple's quest for wealth and power in China may in the end be the undoing both of the company and of America's quest for technology supremacy."

“A masterful and deeply reported portrayal of how Apple gained China and lost its soul.”

"A masterpiece of investigative journalism, replete with revelations. Every iPhone owner will want to read this book, but no Apple employee will risk being seen with it. McGee shows how China played the long game, convincing Apple to invest on an unprecedented scale and, inadvertently, help build its grand authoritarian project. This book is a warning for anyone eager to do business in hostile countries."

"…as Patrick McGee makes devastatingly clear in his smart and comprehensive "Apple in China," the American company's decision under Tim Cook, the current C.E.O., to manufacture about 90 percent of its products in China has created an existential vulnerability not just for Apple, but for the United States — nurturing the conditions for Chinese technology to outpace American innovation.

McGee, who was the lead Apple reporter for The Financial Times and previously covered Asian markets from Hong Kong, takes what we instinctively know — "how Apple used China as a base from which to become the world's most valuable company, and in doing so, bound its future inextricably to a ruthless authoritarian state" — and comes up with a startling conclusion, backed by meticulous reporting: "that China wouldn't be China today without Apple."

"Groundbreaking ... The book is jaw dropping. It's so well-researched. It's not a polemic. It's not hyperbole.”

"The tech company Apple is famously buttoned-up. So too is the Chinese state. Which makes Patrick McGee’s Apple in China a kind of miracle of investigation: here, laid out clearly and with more detail than ever before, is how Apple rode to success on the back of cheap Chinese labour, and how Beijing may now be getting even more in return."

"Scrupulously reported."

”Fascinating … McGee argues that Apple’s choices have not only created risks for the company’s future growth; they have also directly enabled the rise of China as the United States’ only peer technological competitor.”

"Eye-opening and disturbing … It is a cautionary tale par excellence, one that Elon Musk's Tesla is only now learning the hard way.”

"A fascinating analysis of how global capitalism conquered China—and vice versa."

"This is the best China business book I have read in years."

"McGee tells the tale of this Faustian bargain in bold, vivid strokes. It's a great read and an informative guide to how Apple and China truly operate—one that global leaders (and Silicon Valley bigwigs) should pay heed to … He manages to turn supply chain decisions into high drama and make injection molding seem sexy.”

"A gripping reportorial narrative [which] will change the way you look at any piece of Apple equipment from now on. Or the way you read any story about tariffs, "decoupling," and US-Chinese economics dealings overall … the best on-scene detailed case-study of how the US and Chinese are intertwined."

"Revealing…Apple in China corrects an imbalance in the vast library of Apple analysis. By detailing the inherently symbiotic rise of Apple and China’s remarkable manufacturing capability, it exposes a fundamental misunderstanding in the US–China trade wars.

"An eye-opening exposé … chronicles a lucrative relationship stained by manipulation, violence and abuse . . . Apple in China is astonishing."

"One of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written."

"The gripping tale of how the computer giant's decades-long investment in China fueled its spectacular success and, in turn, accelerated China's rise as a technology superpower."

"Remarkable"

"Reading Apple in China, it's hard not to wonder whether Apple, in its pursuit of profit, may have inadvertently helped usher in a new world order helmed by one of America's biggest adversaries."

"McGee depicts Cook as a leader who unwittingly led Apple right to the center of a geopolitical quagmire by conceding to the Chinese government, right at the very moment he should have been executing a backup plan."

"A riveting account"

"His timely book poses a question for investors and policymakers alike: can the company thrive without China? If the answer is no, then a failure to end the trade war will bruise Apple even more deeply than the global economy."

“This book is totemic … We all know that manufacturing, logistics and supply chains are important. McGee has managed to make them thrilling as well.”

“Incredibly timely… [McGee] has used [his] background to create a really comprehensive history telling a story that very few people truly understand.”

"A remarkably researched and detailed story of the tech giant's rapid rise to global dominance."

“Makes the provocative argument that Apple has not simply benefited from cheap Chinese labor, as widely assumed, but that it has also played an indispensable role in making China the tech superpower it is today.”

"A well-argued, eye-opening look at the dark side of globalism, and those who win and lose because of it."

“Explains how Apple — and by extension many multinationals — find themselves captured by China, giving Beijing enormous geopolitical heft around the world.”

“The shifting landscapes of global supply chains from the vantage point of the world’s most valuable company and their impact on defining our global geo-political future makes for a truly riveting read.”