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Comment by like_any_other

10 hours ago

He signed a secret agreement to help develop China's technology [1], lobbied against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China [2], and blocked the Hong Kong protest app [3], the New York Times app [4], and many others [5] in China.

This is less than negligible.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secr...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-apple-i...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/business/media/new-york-t...

[5] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/apple_appstore_china_cen...

Apparently it still wasn't enough to have Xi tell his boy Trump that Cook doesn't need to waste time licking the boot.