People protest all kinds of things, what aboutism doesn't really explain why a company wanting to do business in a country wouldn't follow the countries laws.

People protest all kinds of things, what aboutism doesn't really explain why a company wanting to do business in a country wouldn't follow the countries laws. If any company wants to do business in China they have to deal with strict CCP censorship. Sure you could argue that Apple should SCT on principle and just leave the Chinese market, but play that strategy out to the end. We would have every company moving towards only doing business in their home country. I don't expect that's what most people in the west want and when anything related to tariffs, onshoring manufacturing, etc comes up it gets thrown out as nationalist BS (or MAGA if you're in the US).