{"id":1532839,"date":"2022-06-29T16:51:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532839"},"modified":"2022-06-29T16:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T20:52:01","slug":"apple-ceo-sucks-up-to-china-in-interview-with-state-owned-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-ceo-sucks-up-to-china-in-interview-with-state-owned-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Sucks Up to China in Interview With State-Owned Media"},"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\">22<\/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-sucks-up-to-china-in-interview-with-state-owned-media%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=1532839&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Tim Cook spoke to &#8216;genocide-denying propaganda rag,&#8217; says congressman<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tApple CEO Tim Cook speaks to &#8216;China Daily&#8217; \/ YouTube\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 June 29, 2022 4:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Apple chief executive Tim Cook met this month with Chinese Communist Party members and propagandists who enable Beijing&#8217;s mass surveillance, internet censorship, and other human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Cook praised China&#8217;s &#8220;innovative and inspiring&#8221; app developers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiFia0oQ7KE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview<\/a> with <em>China Daily<\/em>, a Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece that has <a href=\"http:\/\/global.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202205\/24\/WS628c141aa310fd2b29e5e7b1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spread<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202105\/14\/WS609dcceea31024ad0babdcda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disinformation<\/a> about China&#8217;s genocide against Uyghurs. Cook also held talks with an app developer who last year was appointed a secretary of the CCP and another whose photography app prohibits content that &#8220;subverts state power&#8221; or &#8220;undermines the national solidarity&#8221; of China.<\/p>\n<p>The interactions highlight the kind of compromises Cook has made in order to do business in China. The tech titan has touted Apple&#8217;s commitment to civil rights and privacy in the United States while complying with Beijing&#8217;s draconian national security laws and ignoring its human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This further underscores the hypocrisy of corporate America, which preaches social justice at home and turns a blind eye when it comes to its profits,&#8221; Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely shameful an American CEO would sit down with a communist, genocide-denying propaganda rag like <em>China Daily<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>China Daily<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/chinese-propaganda-outlet-paid-millions-to-american-newspapers-and-magazines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pays<\/a> millions of dollars a year to publish its propaganda in American news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Cook&#8217;s interview with <em>China Daily<\/em> and meeting with Chinese app developers were part of his push to maintain access to China&#8217;s deep reservoir of tech workers. He said Apple&#8217;s app store has 5 million China-based apps, up from 4.4 million last year. He lauded Chinese developers as &#8220;at the cutting edge&#8221; and said he was &#8220;inspired&#8221; by their innovation. Cook&#8217;s remarks were a propaganda coup for <em>China Daily<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/global.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202206\/15\/WS62a91937a310fd2b29e62ba3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Cook&#8217;s remarks showed how &#8220;China will be of greater appeal to global tech giants in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To remain in Beijing&#8217;s good graces, Apple blocks apps from its store that might offend Chinese leaders and shares its Chinese customers&#8217; user data with government authorities. One China watcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-12-04\/cook-kisses-the-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Cook has had &#8220;to kiss the ring&#8221; of Chinese government leaders because he &#8220;is desperate to hold onto any remaining scraps of the China market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cook met at the developers conference with app makers Liu Wei and Lin Jiashu as part of a roundtable discussion with Chinese developers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3181696\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-expects-continued-growth-cutting-edge-chinese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> in Chinese media.<\/p>\n<p>Liu, the founder of video game maker miHoYo, in September was appointed his company&#8217;s secretary for the Chinese Communist Party, according to Chinese news <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/C9fFQE9lrIVYAKpH1eZq7A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>. Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-today-news.com\/mihoyo-officially-joins-the-chinese-communist-party-how-does-it-affect-genshin-impact-and-other-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> after his appointment that his company would use its games &#8220;as a promoter of Chinese culture&#8221; and would contribute to China&#8217;s &#8220;new future.&#8221; MiHoYo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/genshin-impact-players-say-chinese-game-censors-taiwan-and-hong-kong-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has censored<\/a> characters and chat functions in its popular <em>Genshin Impact<\/em> video game to appease Chinese authorities. Cook <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenshinImpact\/status\/1334074837078306818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1334074837078306818%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.siliconera.com%2Fgenshin-impact-is-apples-iphone-game-of-the-year%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">congratulated<\/a> miHoYo in 2020 after the game was named the Apple App Store&#8217;s video game of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Lin developed NOMO CAM, a popular photography app that requires users to &#8220;comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the People&#8217;s Republic of China&#8221; or face criminal prosecution. The list of offenses in NOMO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nomo-cdn-ec.dafork.com\/terms_ja.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of service<\/a> include &#8220;damag[ing] the honor and interests of the nation.&#8221; NOMO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nomo-cdn-ec.dafork.com\/privacy_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">privacy policy<\/a> for its Apple app allows the company to share user data with the Chinese government on issues &#8220;directly related to national security and national defense security.&#8221; The Chinese government has been accused of using its national security laws to crack down on pro-democracy demonstrators and shut down news organizations critical of the Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Cook has heaped praise before on the Chinese tech industry, which is required to comply with Beijing&#8217;s national security laws. Cook <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-speaks-chinese-internet-conference-praises-partners-vision-openness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at a 2017 conference Beijing uses to promote\u00a0its internet regulation and censorship initiatives Apple and China were working toward &#8220;openness and shared benefits.&#8221;\u00a0Cook has avoided criticism of the Chinese government&#8217;s human rights record, even as Apple pushes social justice causes in the United States. Apple last year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/apple-slams-georgia-election-law-while-relying-on-chinese-slave-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled<\/a> production in Georgia of a movie about slavery in protest of a GOP-backed voting law. Apple&#8217;s critics noted the company has been accused of relying on Chinese slave labor to build its popular iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Tim Cook spoke to &#8216;genocide-denying propaganda rag,&#8217; says congressman  Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to &#8216;China Daily&#8217; \/ YouTube  Chuck Ross \u2022 June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"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-1532839","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\/1532839","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532839\/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=1532839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}