The American company Apple will have to pay for its financial success because of its bet on the development of all production facilities in China in order to maximize profits. According to the Financial Times, the Cupertino-based corporation will now have to urgently diversify its factories to minimize the damage.

“Apple chief Tim Cook and his company are now under intense pressure from investors and politicians in the US to ‘decouple’ from China and accelerate its diversification strategy,” the FT article said.

In the late 2000s, Apple managed to overtake Nokia in manufacturing even before the iPhone went on sale by placing a significant bet on China and its manufacturing sector, the journalists noted.

“Apple began to build up supply and manufacturing activities of such complexity, depth and cost that the company’s fortunes became so tied to China that those ties are now not easily unwound,” the authors added.

According to the experts, as a result, all the technical competence that China currently possesses is not about hiring Chinese technology experts to improve Apple, but instead about training them thanks to the Cupertino-based company.