iPad devices contain components and supply chains spanning six continents in a poly-economic global knowledge and material network, so tariffs disrupting this network will damage innovation and production across all participating countries, not strengthen any one nation.

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Speaker

Thomas Friedman

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no country in the world can make this device...idea, supply chain, and material supply chain spans six continents...If you come in with tariffs...you completely interrupt the whole thing

Source

Tom Friedman: AI, China, Globalization and America’s Next Era | Coffee with KenCoffee with Ken
Created: 8/12/2026, 5:59:18 PM

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