“Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook was quoted on Friday as saying he had ‘very open’ talks on privacy and security with a senior Chinese official, days after a web monitoring group linked the government to a hack into Apple’s iCloud service in China,” Gerry Shih reports for Reuters.
“Cook’s remarks, made in an interview to the official Xinhua news agency, were his first public comments since meeting Vice Premier Ma Kai in Beijing on Wednesday,” Shih reports. “Cook’s China visit has been overshadowed by a report by web monitoring group Greatfire.org, which alleged the Chinese government was involved in a sophisticated and widespread hacking attack on Apple users in China.”
“The Xinhua interview made no mention of the attack. Asked about the Greatfire report, Apple has said it is ‘aware of intermittent organized network attacks’ without giving details,” Shih reports. “In the interview, Cook said one of Apple’s priorities for China was to introduce the newly launched Apple Pay mobile payments service, and that he was still seeking to understand the steps needed to do so. ‘China is a really key market for us,’ Cook told Xinhua. ‘Everything we do, we are going to work it here. Apple Pay is on the top of the list.'”
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China’s manners are unethical in all its deals, hypocritical, abusive, cynical and unilateral. No matter whether it hurts its relations with its own people, a technology firm or other country. It always sabotages trust. It’s China’s government culture since the Opium War.
Look at the bright side though, they are still way way better than the United Hates.
Yes sadly we showed them the way there and as the best copiers they took full advantage. Combined with thousands of years old imperialist traditions and more modern innate feelings of grievance that doesn’t make for a good combination.