Basically, KNOWING that the Chinese government is an oppressive fascist dictatorship which still operates gulags (Laogai) for dissidents, and which still reserves the right to kill, torture or imprison anyone for substantially any reason, Apple chose to basically make it easy for authorities to hack all the data on every iPhone in China. That is my understanding.
Even Amnesty International, which has long been a left wing organization (and which, to be fair, has also done some really good work over the years) had this to say:
“The changes being made to iCloud are the latest indication that China’s repressive legal environment is making it difficult for Apple to uphold its commitments to user privacy and security,” Amnesty International warned in a statement Tuesday.
Self evidently, they were being overly kind. This move makes it IMPOSSIBLE for Apple to uphold privacy commitments of any sort.
Presumably this is a concession to keep access to State provided slave labor, more or less. It was the Apple factory, you may recall, where they had to install nets to keep people from killing themselves by jumping off the roof to escape their misery.
All of this should not be combined with Left wing politics, or moral hauteur. This is what the Left calls “Capitalism” at its amoral worst. It is the pursuit of a quick buck, at the expense of unnoticed and utterly unremediated human misery. They do this shit, then vote for Obama or Hillary as recompense. I call bullshit. These are human turds.