Apple CEO Tim Cook attends China Development Forum in 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook has described the company's relationship with China as a "symbiotic" one.
  • Apple might be headquartered in Cupertino but its heart is in China.
  • Its devices are still manufactured there, and Greater China accounts for growing sales.
  • Apple has already made concessions to the CCP.

Apple's leadership may operate from the 175-acre, tree-covered campus in sunny Cupertino, California but, in reality, the company's center of gravity is in China.

That's looking like an urgent problem, given geopolitical tensions are growing between the US and China and Apple remains the world's most valuable tech company.