CHINA'S BELOVED APPLE IS NO LONGER APPETIZING WITH THE CHICOM AS ITS COMMUNIST LEADERS ARE NOW IN THE BANNING MOOD WITH APPLE IBOOK STORES AND ITUNE MOVIES SHUTDOWN AS THE LIST OF USA COMPANIES FROM CISCO, INTEL, MCAFEE ARE BLACK LISTED - AS THE BAN STARTS TO GROW TO EFFECT COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE, IBM, QUALCOMM, HP, MICROSOFT BOTTOM LINE CALLED THE PROFIT WHILST CHINA GROWS ITS OWN SIMILAR INDUSTRY IN THE PROCESS SHEDDING THE COMPANIES IT HAS SUCKED DRY FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES FOR ITS OWN COMMUNIST CAPITALISTIC USE

Beijing is now targeting the crown jewels in the US economy in its latest, ongoing effort to distance the country from its long-term "frenemy."
Apple is the latest victim in a long list of Silicon Valley giants, who have had their wings clipped in the billion-plus nation. A report by The New York Times on Friday said that the government had shut down Apple's iBooks Store and iTunes Movies, six months after their debut.

The Beijing media and culture regulator reportedly demanded the stores' closing, according to sources speaking to the newspaper.
It's another sign that China's relations with the US tech industry are deteriorating.
The company's "services" unit, which houses its content stores, accounts for $4.8 billion in revenue as of its fiscal first quarter earnings -- or about 3 percent of its revenue -- representing a small but growing part of the company's business.
But it's still not clear why the move was made to pull the stores.

Some suspect it's an attack on free speech and expression, or a "crackdown on Western ideology," as the Times put it. Given the country's history of censorship and free speech violations, it wouldn't be all that surprising.
But while that may in part be true, this could be just another chapter in a long list of smaller events that have distanced the country from its Western counterparts in the wake of the NSA surveillance revelations, after whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked thousands of classified documents to journalists.

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