Apple CEO Tim Cook praises China's innovation, long history with the company during Beijing visit

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Saturday used his first public remarks on his visit to China to praise the country for its rapid innovation and its long history with the U.S.-based firm, according to local media reports. Cook is in Beijing to attend the China Development Forum, a government-organised event being held again in full force after the country ended its COVID controls late last year. The event is being attended by senior government officials as well as CEOs of firms such as Pfizer and BHP. "Innovation is developing rapidly in China and I believe it will further accelerate," Cook was quoted by The Paper news outlet as saying. His visit comes at a time of rising tensions between Beijing and Washington and as Apple has been looking to reduce its supply chain reliance on China and moving production to new up and coming centres such as India. MacDailyNews Take: Sending armies of student IP thieves into compliant, soft, weak companies like Apple and U.S. higher education institutions - both of which are defenseless due to decades of crippling political correctness - is not innovative, but it certainly has a long history. Hopefully, Cook is now just in the mode of blowing smoke up the CCP's collective wazoo, buying as much time as he can so he can belatedly fix his mistake and diversify Apple's production out from under the thumb of CCP-controlled China. See also: Tim Cook firmly latched Apple onto China's CCP teat.