[russli1993]

The subsidiaries of these companies are subject to the intelligence law and whatever data these subsidiaries owns. If apple keeps US data away from the apple subsidiary in China then Apple is physically impossible to hand the data to Chinese government

[three_seagrass]

Apple keeps data in China. [1] They specifically made the move because of China's National Intelligence Law. [2]

>To comply with the law, for instance, Apple announced that it would transfer the operation of iCloud in Mainland China to a government-sponsored data company named Guizhou-Cloud Big Data.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Internet_Security_Law#Ef...

[jchb]

Yes, but they only store data in China for Chinese customers (as per the registered region of the Apple ID). [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

[three_seagrass]

Right, which is still Apple complying with the Chinese National Intelligence Law and giving up private customer data to the Chinese government.

[judge2020]

This is effectively what TikTok is (claims to be) doing as well https://www.bytedance.com/en/#corporate-structure