As we anticipated on this page, Tim Cook is one of the main speakers at the Development Forum held in China throughout the weekend that ends. At first, Tim Cook had planned to comment on Apple's contributions to the Asian market, but the economic situation has caused a change of plans in the speech of the CEO of Apple.
During the last days, Donald Trump transferred his will to toughen import tariffs to the United States. This measure does not affect all countries equally, directly affecting China.
China is one of the largest technology producers on the planet, and would endanger the domestic production of the US The reason why the president of the United States decides to toughen the products that are imported from the Asian country. This news comes days before Cook's speech at the China Development Forum, where the line of speech should be just the opposite.
In Cook's words, the "calm heads" criterion is expected to finally prevail. The CEO of Apple explained that he is aware that relations between the US and China have experienced different scenarios. He believes that the leaders of both countries will reach a reasonable understanding for both of them going forward.
I am aware that in both the United States and China, there have been cases where everyone has not benefited, that is, where the benefit has not been balanced.
This decision directly affects the relations that Apple maintains with the Asian giant. At the beginning of the year the company moved the iCloud data of Chinese customers to servers located in China, at the request of the local government. At that moment Apple's CEO came out saying it's consistent to do business with governments where the company workswhether or not they agree with certain policies.
My belief is that companies should engage with the governments in the countries where they are doing business, whether they agree or disagree
In addition, Cook believes that the relationship grows and contributes more if all parties work side by side.