Could Apple exist without its ties to China? Probably not


Apple perfected the art of assembling devices inexpensively in China and selling products to the country’s growing middle class. — Reuters

Several years before Donald Trump entered politics, Apple and its partners built massive factories across China to assemble iPhones. Trump first campaigned for president by promising his supporters that he would force Apple to make those products in America.

Nearly a decade later, little has changed. Instead of bringing its manufacturing home, Apple shifted some production from China to India, Vietnam and Thailand. Almost nothing is made in America, and an estimated 80% of iPhones are still made in China.

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