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Apple boss Tim Cook makes surprise China visit

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has made a surprise visit to China.

Though in an upbeat mood as he met gamers in the city of Chengdu, the company faces flagging iPhone demand in the country, analysts suggest.

It is his second trip to China this year — in March he said Apple had a "symbiotic" relationship with China, a key manufacturing base. But the firm's operations in the country have been complicated by Covid and US-China tensions.

Mr Cook's visit included a trip to Apple's Taikoo Li store to meet young players of Tencent's Honour of Kings online battle game. "The energy tonight was off the charts!" he wrote on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.

Honour of Kings started in Chengdu but was now "a global phenomenon on the App Store", he told the state-run China Daily newspaper. He hoped that Chinese developers could repeat this success with software for Apple's new Vision Pro augmented reality headset, which would also use a Chinese manufacturer, the report said.

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