Apple built China

How Apple helped build China into a world leader and how they're an example of the destruction of American labour
May 13, 2025
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Apple built China:

Apple built China.

The last 30 years, China has advanced globally in large part due to Apple.

Especially for certain industries.

Let me explain.

First watch this interview (here).

Incredible insight.

Apple spent $50B a year in China for years to increase their supply chain and manufacturing.

Think about this.

All Apple products are made in China.

A multitrillion dollar a year business has all its components for all its products built in one country.

In order to have that country sustain the manufacturing, Apple needed to invest billions of dollars into all its suppliers across the supply chain to make sure they got everything right.

Enter Xi.

When he came to power in 2013, it all shifted.

All of a sudden these suppliers who got upskilled by Apple for 10+ years could focus on other industries.

Adjacent industries.

Industries like electric vehicles, smart phones, and drones.

The largest companies in the world producing these will soon be Chinese, if they aren’t already.

BYD for EVs.

Huawei for smart phones.

DJI for drones.

There are tons more for each of them, but those are the big three.

Imagine all their employees who built all their products got trained by Apple.

An American company unknowingly built its largest geopolitical rival.

A truly ironic twist of fate.

Apple’s supposed to be an example of American capitalism.

A multitrillion dollar company with products all over the world.

One of the richest companies in America.

Meanwhile for decades, they helped build their greatest rival.

Truly unbelievable.

And yet it’s reality.

Instead of investing locally, America outsourced manufacturing.

They outsourced jobs.

They outsourced wages.

They outsourced the industrial base.

Since Reagan in the 80s when Wall Street underwent deregulation and trickle down economics, large American corporations outsourced their production.

Instead of paying employees high wages in America, they paid low wages elsewhere.

Especially China.

Why?

To increase their profit margin.

To buyback more stock.

To make Wall Street rich.

To make rich people richer.

Meanwhile what happened to the average American worker?


Average American family?

They lost.

Exponentially.

Capital and the coasts of America won.

While the middle got decimated.

America used to be the manufacturing hub of the world in the 20th century.

They built the world post world war 2.

It’s the reason they became the greatest superpower the world has ever seen.

Yet the leaders, bankers and politicians decided to sell American labour to the world while American capital made more money than god.

The world’s employees won.

Most of America lost.

This is just one example.

But there are countless others.

American corporations have destroyed American labour over the past 40 years.

Enter robotics and AI and you have a MASSIVE problem for America.

Massive.

What happens when tens of millions of people in the US have no job and can’t get one because they’ve all been replaced by AI agents and robots?

Now, what happens when all of them are armed with nothing else?

A recipe for disaster.

That’s the world we’re headed into.

Now imagine finding out that one of your star companies built your biggest geopolitical enemy and helped them win.

The irony is almost too crazy.

Now China is going to overtake the US and run the world.

It already has.

Partly thanks to Apple.

Apple built China.

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