📰 Apple, Microsoft, Google Accused of Collaborating with the Chinese Government

U.S. Attorney General William Barr has publicly criticized American tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, for their close relationship with the Chinese government, even suggesting that the Cupertino-based iPhone maker has provided Beijing with access to its devices. Barr, who blasted U.S. tech companies for the way they do business in China, held a speech at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Michigan. “Corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate with the (Chinese Communist Party),” Barr was quoted as saying by Reuters. “The Chinese Communist Party thinks in terms of decades and centuries, while we tend to focus on the next quarterly earnings report,” Barr continued. “America’s big tech companies have also allowed themselves ... ...