I don't believe any CEO taking stance on topic like this.
Tom Cook is picturing Apple as a privacy guard, while they deploy icloud servers in China. Take with a grain of salt everything that's said by people who want to sell you things.
That's literally a requirement of the Chinese government for anyone offering web services in China. What exactly would you suggest they do as an alternative?
The USA does too, as evidenced by the NSA’s spying and Trump being Trump. ICE issues iPhones as government furnished equipment. They’re almost certainly being used to help coordinate the caging of children.
So Apple just shouldn’t do business anywhere then?
Tom Cook is picturing Apple as a privacy guard, while they deploy icloud servers in China. Take with a grain of salt everything that's said by people who want to sell you things.