Thursday, September 4, 2025
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Mortara Center Building Conference Room
September 4, 2025
Apple in China
The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Event Series: Other Initiative Events
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 Beijing a power that could be weaponized. In Apple in China (2025), journalist Patrick McGee draws on more than 200 interviews with former executives and engineers, supplementing their stories with unreported meetings held by Steve Jobs, emails between top executives, and internal memos regarding threats from Chinese competition. McGee will join Senior Fellow Dennis Wilder in a conversation to discuss the findings of his new book. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the end of the event.
This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and the Asian Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Patrick McGee was the Financial Times’s principal Apple reporter from 2019 to 2023, during which time he won a San Francisco Press Club Award for his coverage. He joined the newspaper in 2013, in Hong Kong, before reporting from Germany and California. Previously, he was a bond reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He has a master’s degree in global diplomacy from SOAS, University of London, and a degree in religious studies from the University of Toronto.
Dennis Wilder (moderator) is a senior fellow for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, where he previously served as the managing director. Wilder holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.