The Impossible Partnership: Apple’s Coming Reckoning with China (opens in new tab)

The role of Apple’s chief executive still appears deceptively familiar: steward a portfolio of iconic products, manage a sprawling global supply chain, appease Donald Trump, and deliver outsized returns to shareholders. As Apple is poised to transition from Tim Cook to John Ternus, however, that conception no longer reflects the reality of what the position entails. Ternus will inherit a position fundamentally altered by geopolitics, one that now sits uncomfortably closer to questions of nati...