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When Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook appeared at the China Economic Forum in Beijing on Saturday, he said he was thrilled to be back in the country for the first time since 2019. The contrast between the warm welcome Cook received in Beijing and the aggressive questioning of TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew in Washington two days earlier could not have been more stark. China had a single message to transmit to the international business leaders, economic experts and commentators at the forum: after three years of zero-Covid, the country is open for business. That message was amplified most...
