That device you check 100 times a day? It exists because of the most consequential business partnership you've never heard of. Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China, talks to me about how Apple's quest for manufacturing perfection accidentally created China's technological superpower—while China's scale and ambition created the modern iPhone. Training 3 million workers, orchestrating billion-component supply chains, and reshaping entire economies, this is the untold story of how your iPhone changed the world, and what that means for America's future.

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