Apple CEO Tim Cook made Chairman of Tsinghua University SEM in China

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed as chairman of visory board for Tsinghua University's School of Ecomics and Manment (SEM) in Beijing. Cook will hold role for next three years as suggested by University's board meeting summary for October 18 which tes that Cook himself was present at meeting where his appointment was confirmed and gave a speech. However, Apple has t yet publicly anunced or commented. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping is among top politicians who attended Tsinghua as an undergruate. visory board at SEM includes he of school, businessmen and senior government officials. Cook will be succeeding Breyer Capital founder and CEO Jim Breyer, who was appointed in 2016. According to reports, cook met with he of China's market regulatory last week which was after Apple was caught in middle of ongoing tension between mainland and protesters in Hong Kong. 

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Apple caught in middle

While pro-democracy protests are still ongoing in Hong Kong, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez even wrote to Apple along with video game studio Activision Blizzard in order to condemn protest-related censorship on behalf of China. group furr has urged Apple to reverse its decision to remove its app store crowdsourced mapping app HKMaplive which is used to report police locations in city. Similarly, y dressed issue of Activision Blizzard suspending a Hong Kong gamer after he voiced support for demonstrators during an interview.

“Cases like se raise real concerns about wher Apple and or large U.S. entities will bow to growing Chinese demands rar than lose access to more than a billion Chinese consumers,” said letter sent Friday and co-signed by Sens. Marco Rubio and Ron Wyden and Reps. Mike Gallagher and Tom Maliwski.

(With AP inputs) 

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