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Joel Thayer
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It's true. Apple's ties to the CCP is incredibly troubling. The New York Times reported on Apple’s dealings with China. In it, the Times found that China’s President, Xi Jinping, is increasingly exerting influence over the tech behemoth, especially as it relates to Apple’s functions and protocols oriented towards maintaining the integrity of its customers’ privacy and encryption. Congress needs to find out how many functions Apple degraded to do business in mainland China and to what extent those degradations hurt American consumers.
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Evan Swarztrauber
@SayreEvan
Apple is the second most China-exposed company in the U.S. Its high score on @StrategyRisks new index reflects a mix of potential problems, including supply chain dependence, partnerships with CCP and state-owned firms, and forced labor/human rights. foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world
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Joel Thayer
@joellthayer
Put simply, China does not share the same values as the United States, especially its blatant disregard for human rights. Although China does have something that the U.S. simply lacks: billions of more customers. Unfortunately, Apple has taken full advantage of both these
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Joel Thayer
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Apparently for Apple, it meant limiting its ability to protect at least their Chinese customers’ personal privacy and the level of encryption on their devices from the Chinese government. For example, the Times reported that Apple approved measures to “store customer data on
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Joel Thayer
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Ironically, Apple touts its privacy and encryption measures as its competitive advantage over its other tech competitors, such as Google or Facebook. Apple, itself, describes privacy as “a fundamental human right.” The company has even used these principles as a justification for
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Joel Thayer
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Apple asserts a quasi-Nuremberg defense that it is simply adhering to the laws of the land, but this, too, is not persuasive as there are plenty of examples of Apple protesting U.S.-based laws it feels either violates Apple’s principles or human rights. One can only surmise that
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Joel Thayer
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Apple CEO Tim Cook described China as “critical” to Apple’s supply chain and has pledged to increase investment and expand research and development facilities in the region. Couple that with Apple’s multi-billion dollar deal with the Chinese government requiring it to “store
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Joel Thayer
@joellthayer
Candidly, Apple’s only real concern is its bottom-line, which, as a corporation, is all it should be focused on. Protecting our national security and safety are not Apple’s core competencies, nor should it be. Such responsibilities lie exclusively with our elected leaders. It is
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NoToChina
@NoToChina_org
A year or two ago there were "leaks" of how Apple was divesting from China. Turns out it was a handful of iPhones made in India for the India market and some random accessories in Vietnam. Apple is doubling down on China. It's time to move to
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Michael Babich 🇺🇦
@MichaelBabich
Not to mention Apple is the most un-American American company. Properly speaking, Apple is a Chinese company HQed in the US. It invests so much in developing talents for China, production capacities in China, and technology transfer to China that's it hard to call it American.
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Lander PeterJohn
@LanderPeterjohn
I suspect your story is false for 4 reasons - 1) Your refer to the NYT 2) You supply no reference links 3) You personalise it to Xi Jinping 4) You say CCP - always a giveaway /2
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Duke Amstaff 🚛🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇺
@CSKupr
Don't blame enemy, our own finance now encourages oligarchic enterprise rather than supporting free markets. This is the consequence of put all your eggs in one basket.
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Hλng𝕏Mudλ.II 👉𝕏
@DaHangMuda2
All the 🇺🇸 companies should just leave China, abandon the Chinese market for good, & drop the Chinese supply chain! 🙄
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Dan Collins
@DanCollins2011
(1/2) This is a brake disc. Just 1 of the tens of thousands of items not manufactured in the 🇺🇸anymore. The 🇺🇸 needs to import 100m of these a year from 🇨🇳 to keep the cars on the road. If the 🇺🇸 suddenly had to make their own, you would need 50 new plants at $50m investment each
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Monte
@_leszek_
Nonsense! Apple needs China for their abundant technical experience. Tim Cook tried to switch iPhone production to India with the help of China but Indian production could not match the quality of China. Eventually, things might change but for now Apple needs China
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CJWorld
@CJWorld9
You realize everything you list as the Chinese gov asking Apple to comply with, the US gov also requested. So what makes the US governments requests ok and the CCP requests not ok? Or are both not acceptable?
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MP
@MP32850564
3) Apple is already struggling to sell phones in China, so much so they had to lower prices, China's domestic manufactures offer a competitive product, Apple would be asinine to follow the ramblings of some biased clown hopped up on jingoism that is unaware of his own bias
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Lim CS
@LimShoi
I agree Apple should shift its entire manufacturing base to Israel & India for the very bestest credibility boost. One is rigged with explosives and the other one is rigged with cow dung & E coli. That's gonna make ppl wanna buy Iphone Moore not... 😂
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MP
@MP32850564
2) Apple will do as it pleases, obviously what they do is totally legal, share holders couldn't careless when there is profit, China has the right to demand user data relating to its citizens is stored in China. Cope harder you cuck...
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MP
@MP32850564
1) According to the number of civilian casualties from US led wars the past 30 years, US human rights record is far worse than China's, US's sky rocketing poverty, income inequality, and continued quest for global hegemony enforced by force is also far more detrimental than CN's
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PTL
@NonAlyned
Just sue Apple & maybe you can dig something up or career-ending for you in tech circle. Go f*ck around & find out.
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