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Censorship, surveillance and profits: A hard bargain for Apple in China

Apple built the world's most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese govt

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Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe

Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong & Daisuke Wakabayashi | NYT
On the outskirts of this city in a poor, mountainous province in southwestern China, men in hard hats recently put the finishing touches on a white building a quarter-mile long with few wind­ows and a tall surrounding wall. There was little sign of its purpose, apart from the flags of Apple and China flying out front, side by side. Inside, Apple was preparing to store the personal data of its Chinese custo­mers on computer servers run by a state-owned Chinese firm.

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe. But at the data center in Guiyang, which Apple

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