Apple’s Tim Cook Upbeat in Beijing as China Courts Global CEOs

Business leaders and Chinese officials at economic forum are careful to tiptoe around Sino-U.S. political ties

Apple CEO Tim Cook is making his first known visit to China since the pandemic began.Photo: Michael Tran/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

BEIJING—Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook took the stage Saturday at an economic conference in Beijing sponsored by the Chinese government, giving an upbeat talk that was welcomed with applause. 

The treatment his counterpart at TikTok received days earlier in Washington couldn’t have been more different: hours of questioning by lawmakers over the short-video platform’s links to Beijing.

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