Apple has been dragged into an escalating confrontation over cyber security and US spying in China after its iPhone was branded a threat to national security by state media.
The move comes just months after the US technology group struck a deal to supply iPhones to China Mobile, the world’s largest phone company, which was regarded as a key moment in Apple’s attempt to reach a further 1bn Chinese smartphone users.
It also comes in the week that the US and China concluded high-level trade talks in which little progress was made to update an 18-year-old agreement that governed the $2tn annual trade in high-tech products between the two countries.
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