Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights
Tim Cook wasn&#x27;t invited for his beliefs, but to give face to the Chinese government.<p>Chinese internet is as closed as it gets. Any foreign company eating up the market share of a local company will get blocked eventually or be forced into merging into a local entity.<p>For now it really is open in one way : Chinese companies are welcome to compete in the whole world, but China won&#x27;t let you be a competitor of the local companies<p>Cook is &quot;forced&quot; into this monkey dance because he&#x27;s deeply entrenched into the Chinese market. He only has little leverage : the jobs he creates in China and the money he makes there.<p>He has to comply to local laws, even though it interferes with his own point of view because lots of money is at stake. He can&#x27;t say it in this conference