For readers of Walter Isaacsons Steve Jobs and Chris Millers Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build Chinas dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.

After struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by Chinas seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. Soon it was sending thousands of engineers across the Pacific, training millions of workers, and spending hundreds of billions of dollars to create the worlds most sophisticated supply chain. These capabilities enabled Apple to build the 21st centurys most iconic productsin staggering volume and for enormous profit.

Without explicitly intending to, Apple built an advanced electronics industry within China, only to discover that its massive investments in technology upgrades had inadvertently given Beijin