Production is almost entirely based in china. And apple is becoming wary of this dependency. China 0 cobit policy and strict locked downs paralyzed. Its partner fox con, which makes the phones that complicates things for apple industry. Experts think apple has become more reliant on china in the 11 years since tim coke became c e o. He outsourced more and more production there to cut costs and increase efficiency. But now, Chinese Labor costs are on the rise. So its time for a course correction apple is expanding in india and vietnam, where workers are much cheaper. Well for more in this, we go to frazier, how hes a china analyst and the author of the book read capitalism. Frasier, thanks for joining us. Why has apple under tim cook, ben, so drawn to china . Look, i think its a similar story. For many producers, china has become the car was replaced of the world. They had very good day in clusters of infrastructure for manufacturing. And so in that sense, it was a no brainer. You had u
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