Hate the fact that China has so much influence over our media
At least Japan's influence gives us dope cars, fashion and video games.
Its not that they influence the media. It's that they influence major manufacturers which fund the media. Apple is not Gannet or Sinclair or Time/Warner or Comcast. But what they DO control is the vehicle(s) of delivery. Media is water, but China makes all the pipes. Without China there's no cameras, phones, chips, fiberoptics, sets, and so much other shyt. They ARE the world's factory. And they want to go full force on AI because it allows them to manufacture white collar and creative work as well.
Apple NEEDS China in more ways than many other tech companies do. Because at the end of the day they are a hardware manufacturer. They don't have a chokehold on data like Google does, they don't have control of the entertainment world like Netflix and they don't have the retail/logistics locked up like Amazon. Apple is SO rich it can get away with shyt, but if China stopped fukking with them they'd be fukked because they simply haven't diversified enough to NOT make phones and laptops.