Apple’s Faustian Bargain: Building the Red Tech Dragon Remember when “Designed in California” actually meant something? That ended the moment Apple bet the future of its empire on cheap Chinese labor and Communist compliance. Journalist Patrick McGee calls it “the biggest untold story in tech.” He’s right—but it’s more than untold. It’s covered up. According to McGee, Apple didn’t discover China’s manufacturing capabilities—it created them. By 2015, the tech giant was funneling $55 billion a year into China’s economy. That’s twice the inflation-adjusted cost of the entire Marshall Plan, which rebuilt 16 nations after World War II. Let that sink in: Apple spent more building China than America spent rebuilding Europe. And what did they get for it? 28 million…

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