Taipei

"Tupman had another wedding to attend in two days and would need several weeks to get an H1B visa to work in the United States. No wedding and no time, Fadell explained. They didn’t have a production-build prototype yet, but Steve Jobs would be unveiling it in just four weeks. Fadell had already taken the liberty of getting Tupman hired on a temporary basis with Inventec, the iPod’s contract manufacturer, so he could begin work straightaway and work out his US visa issues—and his move to California—later. *Crikey,* Tupman thought. “Oh, and one more thing,” said Fadell: “I bought you a ticket for tomorrow morning. It leaves at eleven a.m. You’re flying to Taipei, so pack for two months and get going.”"

"Even Xi Jinping, who seeks to annex Taiwan and has little reason to flatter its citizens, has acknowledged that China’s forty years of opening and reform “has to be chalked up to our Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan companies.” Taipei calculates that between 1991 and 2022, total business investment from the corporate sector exceeded $203 billion, a huge number by any standard—barring Cupertino’s."