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As far as I know, In the US, Apple has always fully and willingly complied with legal requests for data stored on it's servers. Even in this specific controversial case, Apple handed over the relevant data to the authorities upon legal request.

Where they are drawing the line is to "break in" to their customers' devices upon legal request. As far as I can tell from this article, there is nothing to suggest that the Chinese government has ever made such a request.

It is therefore very misleading of this article to compare the requests as if they are the same and to suggest that Apple is complying with similar requests in China while denying the US government.