[euroderf]

An imperfect analogy, but...

Apple conserves privacy in the US by exporting privacy violations to China.

Kind of like relocating your polluting industrial processes overseas.

[bigyabai]

Funny thing is, we can assume that all the nasty stuff happens in China... but Apple is still a US company.

However Tim Cook kisses up to Trump in public is corollary to how he kisses ass in private. If Chinese iCloud servers had backdoored HSMs installed without anyone throwing a hissy-fit, imagine what kind of control the US Government has had for the past decade...