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Thanks to AI, Apple’s China problem is only getting worse

February 21, 2025

For years, Tim Cook insisted Apple could change China from the inside. Instead, China changed Apple.
The latest evidence? Apple spent billions developing cutting-edge electric vehicle battery technology with Chinese automaker BYD, only to watch its innovations become the cornerstone of BYD’s rise to global electric vehicle dominance. Apple walked away with nothing. China walked away with everything.
This isn’t just another story about corporate research and development gone wrong. It’s a cautionary tale about how even America’s most valuable company has become trapped in China’s web of technological control — and how that web is about to tighten even further.

DeepSeek Is a Wake-Up Call. Is America Listening?

January 29, 2025

The Chinese start-up has blown up our assumptions about American tech supremacy—and made the AI race very real. By Geoffrey Cain Published January 28, 2025

American Affairs: North Carolina and the Regional Roots of American Industrial Strategy

June 21, 2023

by Geoffrey CainAmerican AffairsSummer 2023 he engine of innovation exists in space and quiet. The North Carolina Biotech Center is nestled behind layers of birch trees,

The Samsung Sandwich

March 29, 2021

The Korean giant pumped billions of dollars into China and came to dominate its smartphone market. Now, it’s closing factories. What happened? By Geoffrey CainThe

Samsung vs. Apple: Inside The Brutal War For Smartphone Dominance

March 15, 2020

In 2005, Chang-Gyu Hwang—president of Samsung’s semiconductor and memory business—traveled with two fellow executives to Palo Alto, to the home of Steve Jobs.

By Geoffrey Cain
Forbes

Mar 13, 2020

From a family fish shop to taking down Apple via the ‘selfie that broke the internet’: How Samsung became one of the world’s biggest brands despite selling exploding phones

March 15, 2020

Watched by 43 million people on TV as she hosted the 2014 Oscars, comedienne Ellen DeGeneres walked through the audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

By Geoffrey Cain
The Daily Mail

Mar 8, 2020

Artificial Power: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

March 9, 2020

KAI-FU LEE AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2018

By Geoffrey Cain
Mekong Review

May 2019

Why Samsung’s recall of Galaxy smartphones threatens its universe

January 1, 2018

As exploding batteries force recall of flagship phone, can a rising star rethink company’s business model to prevent an even bigger bang?

By Geoffrey Cain
South China Morning Post

September 26, 2016

From Crisis to Creative Destruction at Samsung

October 12, 2016

Combustible smartphones are a symptom of deeper management problems at the Korean company.

By Geoffrey Cain
The Wall Street Journal

Oct 12, 2016

Freewheeling, prosperous Korea is a remarkably tough place for Western companies

February 2, 2015

SEOUL, South Korea — Of course, China is renowned as a tough place to do business. But world’s biggest brand names have a long history of investing major bucks in booming South Korea — only to whiff.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Feb 2, 2015

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How China Perfected the Surveillance State

March 25, 2025

Geoffrey Cain on Investigative Journalism, Authoritarian Power, and The Perfect Police State | In a wide-ranging conversation with Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society, investigative journalist Geoffrey Cain reflects on years spent reporting inside some of the world’s most restrictive regimes — and on the research behind his book The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.

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Thanks to AI, Apple’s China problem is only getting worse

February 21, 2025