# How Apple’s Foxconn ties deepened its China dependence?

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**Created:** [March 30, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-apple-s-foxconn-ties-deepened-its-china-dependence/679710 "2026-03-30T14:00:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![sarah\_connor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/sarah_connor/32/31258_2.png) [@sarah\_connor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sarah_connor)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-apple-s-foxconn-ties-deepened-its-china-dependence/679710/1 "2026-03-30T14:00:18Z")

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This excerpt traces how Apple’s early manufacturing partnership with Foxconn grew into a deep dependence on China, and why that relationship became one of the company’s biggest.

> **[The origin story of Apple’s long-running relationship with FoxConn](https://www.theverge.com/tech/898077/apple-in-china-patrick-mcgee-foxconn)**
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> An excerpt from Patrick McGee’s Apple in China.

Sarah

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**Author:** ![MechaPrime](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mechaprime/32/31154_2.png) [@MechaPrime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MechaPrime)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-apple-s-foxconn-ties-deepened-its-china-dependence/679710/2 "2026-03-30T14:07:06Z")

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Apple got speed, scale, and supply-chain discipline from Foxconn in China, but that efficiency gradually hardened into strategic dependence because the manufacturing ecosystem clustered there faster than Apple could replicate elsewhere.

MechaPrime