{"id":1098295,"date":"2021-12-08T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098295"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:14:44","slug":"apple-ceo-signed-secret-agreement-with-china-promising-to-help-them-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-ceo-signed-secret-agreement-with-china-promising-to-help-them-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Signed Secret Agreement With China Promising To Help Them, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fapple-ceo-signed-secret-agreement-with-china-promising-to-help-them-report-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>According to a new report, Apple CEO Tim Cook secretly signed an $275 agreement years ago with the Chinese government in which he promised Apple would aid China\u2019s economy and tech industries with investments as well as worker training.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/facing-hostile-chinese-authorities-apple-ceo-signed-275-billion-deal-with-them\">The Information<\/a> reported on Tuesday, \u201ciPhone recently became the top-selling smartphone in China, its second-biggest market after the U.S., for the first time in six years. But the company owes much of that success to CEO Tim Cook, who laid the foundation years ago by secretly signing an agreement, estimated to be worth more than $275 billion, with Chinese officials promising Apple would do its part to develop China\u2019s economy and technological prowess through investments, business deals and worker training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCook forged the five-year agreement, which hasn\u2019t been previously reported, during the first of a series of in-person visits he made to the country in 2016 to quash a sudden burst of regulatory actions against Apple\u2019s business, according to internal Apple documents viewed by The Information,\u201d The Information added.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-called-nancy-pelosi-directly-as-big-tech-regulations-gained-steam\/\">reported<\/a> last June that Cook contacted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to block Congress\u2019 efforts to regulate Big Tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/22\/technology\/amazon-apple-google-facebook-antitrust-bills.html\">reported:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The antitrust bills were rushed, he said. They would crimp innovation. And they would hurt consumers by disrupting the services that power Apple\u2019s lucrative iPhone, Mr. Cook cautioned at various points, according to five people with knowledge of the conversations.<\/em> \u2026 <em>The calls by Mr. Cook are part of a forceful and wide-ranging pushback by the tech industry since the proposals were announced this month. Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen think tanks and advocacy groups paid by tech companies have swarmed Capitol offices, called and emailed lawmakers and their staff members, and written letters arguing there will be dire consequences for the industry and the country if the ideas become law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In June 2019, Cook insisted in an interview with CBS news anchor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tim-cook-interview-apple-ceo-insists-company-is-not-a-monopoly-exclusive-today-2019-06-04\/\">Norah O\u2019Donnell<\/a> that Apple was not a monopoly. At the Worldwide Developers Conference, asked if Apple was too big, Cook replied, \u201cNo. I don\u2019t think so. \u2026 I think scrutiny is fair. I think we should be scrutinized. But if you look at our\u2026 any kind of measure about is Apple a monopoly or not, I don\u2019t think anybody reasonable is gonna come to the conclusion that Apple\u2019s a monopoly. Our share is much more modest. We don\u2019t have a dominant position in any market \u2026 You know, our share of smartphones in the U.S. is typically in the high 30s or so, mid-30s. On PCs, it\u2019s lower than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized, \u201cWe are not a monopoly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When O\u2019Donnell asked about the privacy of Apple users, Cook stated, \u201cWe focus on the user. And the user wants the ability to go across numerous properties on the web without being under surveillance. We\u2019re moving privacy protections forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report, Apple CEO Tim Cook secretly signed an $275 agreement years ago with the Chinese government in which he promised Apple would aid China\u2019s economy and tech industries with investments as well as worker training.The Information reported on Tuesday, \u201ciPhone recently became the top-selling smartphone in China, its second-biggest market after the U.S., for the first time in six years. But the company owes much of that success to CEO Tim Cook, who laid the foundation years ago by secretly signing an agreement, estimated to be worth more than $275 billion, with Chinese officials promising Apple would do its part to develop China\u2019s economy and technological prowess through investments, business deals and worker training.\u201d\u201cCook forged the five-year agreement, which hasn\u2019t been previously reported, during the first of a series of in-person visits he made to the country in 2016 to quash a sudden burst of regulatory actions against Apple\u2019s business, according to internal Apple documents viewed by The Information,\u201d The Information added.The Daily Wire reported last June that Cook contacted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to block Congress\u2019 efforts to regulate Big Tech firms.The New York Times\u00a0reported:The antitrust bills were rushed, he said. They would crimp innovation. And they would hurt consumers by disrupting the services that power Apple\u2019s lucrative iPhone, Mr. Cook cautioned at various points, according to five people with knowledge of the conversations. \u2026 The calls by Mr. Cook are part of a forceful and wide-ranging pushback by the tech industry since the proposals were announced this month. Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen think tanks and advocacy groups paid by tech companies have swarmed Capitol offices, called and emailed lawmakers and their staff members, and written letters arguing there will be dire consequences for the industry and the country if the ideas become law.In June 2019, Cook insisted in an interview with CBS news anchor\u00a0Norah O\u2019Donnell that Apple was not a monopoly. At the Worldwide Developers Conference, asked if Apple was too big, Cook replied, \u201cNo. I don\u2019t think so. \u2026 I think scrutiny is fair. I think we should be scrutinized. But if you look at our\u2026 any kind of measure about is Apple a monopoly or not, I don\u2019t think anybody reasonable is gonna come to the conclusion that Apple\u2019s a monopoly. Our share is much more modest. We don\u2019t have a dominant position in any market \u2026 You know, our share of smartphones in the U.S. is typically in the high 30s or so, mid-30s. On PCs, it\u2019s lower than that.\u201dHe emphasized, \u201cWe are not a monopoly.\u201dWhen O\u2019Donnell asked about the privacy of Apple users, Cook stated, \u201cWe focus on the user. And the user wants the ability to go across numerous properties on the web without being under surveillance. We\u2019re moving privacy protections forward.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}