Apple CEO Tim Cook becomes chairman of China university board
Apple IncPresident Tim Cook is the new chairman of the Advisory Board of the School of EconomicsManagement (SEM) of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China
As indicated by Tsinghua University SEM’s public WeChat account, the 20th meeting of the advisory board was held at the Beijing campus on Oct18The meeting was led by Tim Cook, with 35 individuals in participation
Tim Cook’s role will be to advance the improvement of the collegemake it a world-class economic management schoolHis mandate will last from 2019 to 2022
The advisory board was set up in 2000It includes entrepreneurs, business school deans, scholars, leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),financial departments.
The day preceding the advisory board meeting, Tim Cook met with Xiao Ya-qing (肖亞慶), director of China’s State Administration for Market Regulation in BeijingAs per the department’s official website, “The two sides have conducted in-depth exchanges on expanding investmentbusiness development in China, protecting consumer rightsfulfilling corporate social responsibility.”
Apple actively works within the Chinese marketDespite the fact that Cook has met with significant level Chinese official authorities in recent years, a large number of Apple’s initiatives have been “looked down on” by China, as per CNA
Apple was recently constrained by the CCP to expel a crowdsourced map service from its App Store that permitted Hong Kong dissenters to track police movementCook defended the expulsion in an email to workersemphasized the application was evacuated for unlawful use
Prior this month, the Taiwan flag emoticon disappeared from Hong KongMacau iPhone clients’ keyboards after a software updateSimultaneously, the U.Sonline media Quartz, which was giving an account of the Hong Kong fights, was expelled from the Chinese version of the App Store
Updates on Cook’s new role comes during trade war talks between the U.S.ChinaAs per Liberty Times, some netizens have commented that Cook is “wasting his time trying to stabilize the Chinese market.”
