Just days after Congress grilled TikTok's CEO, Apple's CEO traveled to China, where he touted the company's strong relationship with the country at a business conference organized by the Chinese government.
2022, making the country its second-largest market for product sales outside of the U.S., closely behind Europe.Cook’s trip underscores how different the Chinese relationship can be for manufacturing firms versus software companies.Many of China’s top mobile apps have found aThe U.S. government's concerns that imports of foreign technology could pose national security risks are heightening tensions between Beijing and Washington.
U.S. lawmakers have so far mostly taken aim at hardware and enterprise technology firms like Huawei and ZTE. The governmentand imports of new telecommunication devices from those companies in the U.S. last year. TikTok is the first major consumer app that lawmakers are publicly threatening to ban. On Monday, Punchbowl news
that Sen. Josh Hawley wants the Senate to vote this week on legislation he introduced to ban TikTok.In the past, some companies have faced pressure over their tight business relationships with China. Apple is so far staying close to China without apparently paying much of a price, even in an era when Chinese firms like TikTok face intense criticism in the U.S.
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