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Your points are mostly related to the Chinese internal politics. Even if we look away from their human rights abuses, say because the US also has a bad track record, China's using their economical power to bully other countries and companies into self-censorhip and ignoring those abuses. They're essentially trying to legitimize their unsavory actions, and they're at least partly succeeding.

So they are harming our democracies, never-mind their citizens.

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Well, "our democracies", self-censor all the time at many scales (from government to news to entertainment) in matters that suit us, eg. Saudi Arabia, so there's that.

Hollywood for example doesn't cosy-up to China because they're bullied, but to sell more movie seats there. I'd say the same thing is true for Apple's case.