China accuses the US technology group Apple, to support the government-critical protesters in Hong Kong. The would use an Apple App, the police trick.
The US group is criticized in the newspaper of the Communist party of China. The newspaper objected to the admission of a particular App on Apple devices, the movement of the police followed in Hong Kong and Protesters while the government-critical demonstrations will be used.
The App “HKmap.live” open in the Chinese special administrative zone of violent demonstrators, the door, the party organ “people’s daily”. “Apple’s agreement to all of the App helps, of course, the looters. What is the actual intention?”, the sheet asks rhetorically.
Service or Subversion?
The App collects by “crowd sourcing” information – User, for example, report on the Verkerslage and possible police activity – and brings them together. In this way, you can determine where exactly a high police-is observed in presence.
According to Apple, the App helps people to come without the traffic from one place of city to another. The government sees a different effect: The protesters could evade the police and of the state power to freely protest. The App bar feed “illegal behavior”.
Open threats from Beijing
In the case of Apple Music, more kritisert the party leadership, to offer the iPhone group also made a song to advocate openly for the independence of Hong Kong from China. No one wants to pull the US company in the unrest in the special administrative region. “The people, however, have reason to believe that Apple has mixed business with politics, and even illegal actions,” the report says. Apple needs to think “about the consequences of his ill-advised and reckless decision-making”.
Anti-government protests in Hong Kong (archive photo from the 6. October)
Since the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong in accordance with the principle of “one country, two systems” autonomously. The seven million Hong Kong under China’s sovereignty, but, unlike the people of the Communist people’s Republic of even more rights, such as freedom of expression and freedom of Assembly, to which they now fear. For five months, to demonstrate against their government and the growing influence of the Communist leadership in Beijing.
Elsewhere yielded
After criticism in the Chinese state media to the App, “HKmap.live”, the stock of Chinese Apple suppliers. The parent company Apple has not commented initially on the allegations and maintains provisionally, contrary to the criticism of your offer.
In another case, the California group has yielded to the demands of Beijing, however. With the new Version of iOS, which is the basis for the Apple devices, the user cannot map the national flag of Taiwan. Do you want to do it nevertheless, you have to take detours.
China, which regards Taiwan as a part of the people’s Republic of China and continues every one, whether a private person, company or state, under massive pressure from Beijing, and he or she would recognize the state sovereignty of the island Republic of Taiwan.
Apple, however, is heavily dependent on China. The group accounts for about 20 percent of its sales in the Chinese market. On the other hand, the Californian, iPhones, and other devices to produce in China, alone of 220 million iPhones in the last year.
Not so submissive as Daimler
The current charge to support the protesters in Hong Kong, is Apple so far, but uncommented and shows that the company does not want to throw any political intention of China. In the context of the Hong Kong protests, for example, the Hong Kong airline to Cathay, the government in Beijing is far-reaching concessions to make.
The German car manufacturer Daimler had moved in around February of last year, with a quote from the Dalai Lama, the wrath of China, the course. Beijing considers the spiritual leader of the Tibetans for a separatists, of the state sovereignty of the Empire was threatening.
Daimler had deleted the offending quote immediately and several times when the Chinese state leaders excused. The result of this submissive gesture of Submission: The car group has been ridiculed for this “kowtow” in the world.