• Apple CEO Tim Cook made the comment during at an event this weekend in China, amid increasing trade and geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Communist-run country.
• Cook’s visit was his first  since the pandemic began in 2020.
• Most of Apple’s iPhones are made in China, but Cook is reportedly trying to move production out of the country.
• Cook also came to China just days after TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was grilled on Capitol Hill about whether the owner of the social media platform, Beijing-based ByteDance, was sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese Communist Party.
• “Apple and China . . . grew together and so this has been a symbiotic kind of relationship,” Cook reportedly said.

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