At present, China is the only place on all of Earth that can manufacture 50,000 iPhones per hour, which is on the close order of how many they sell. There's li

At present, China is the only place on all of Earth that can manufacture 50,000 iPhones per hour, which is on the close order of how many they sell. There's literally no other way for Apple to come up with the 250 million units a year that they sell. In a certain sense, the iPhone is a wholly Chinese product. Without China, there is no iPhone, and there is no Apple-as-we-know-it-in-2023. I am of the belief that Apple is doing everything in their power to change that, as even a cold war with China would put a rapid end to that. Apple is investing huge amounts of money in India to create a parallel supply chain for iPhones. I imagine that people in the USG are acutely aware that the CCP has, at present, ultimate control over the revenue stream of one of their largest and most profitable companies, and have coordinated a response plan to address this (ultimately untenable) state of affairs.