And the author is a massive hypocrite too. > Apple seem to suggest that their engagement will make the local people happier. > We recognize that Chinese aren’

And the author is a massive hypocrite too. > Apple seem to suggest that their engagement will make the local people happier. > We recognize that Chinese aren’t going to be Gorbacheved. Did anybody follow what happened to regular citizens of the Soviet Union after it broke apart? Economy output cut by half per capital, life expectation reduced drastically. And freedom in some of the republic got much worse as they became absolute dictatorships. And this guy speak like it was some glorious event for the people. Presumably, on his moral high horse, he would agree that the democratic government of Iraq was a massive improvement over Saddam Hussein? But such judgement should be left to the Iraqi people, and last I have checked they are not exactly happy with what happened to them in the last decade and half.