Apple CEO Sucks Up to China in Interview With State-Owned Media

Apple chief executive Tim Cook met this month with Chinese Communist Party members and propagandists who enable Beijing's mass surveillance, internet censorship, and other human rights abuses.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Cook praised China's "innovative and inspiring" app developers in an interview with China Daily, a Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece that has spread disinformation about China'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 "subverts state power" or "undermines the national solidarity" of China.