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And context changes how you see things, how you change things, because context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg

dot com to get context. Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests have raged on for several months now and with tensions flaring China is cracking down on anything

and anyone seen to promote the movement. That's gotten several American companies

in trouble both at home and abroad. There's new fallout this evening in the NBA's firestorm with China.

The NBA tonight fighting back after being blasted for caving to China's communist government.

Why did Activision Blizzard suspend this guy?

I guess it was to, you know, to butter up to China, wasn't it?

But few U.S. companies depend on China's 14 trillion dollar economy like Apple.

And the companies made a series of moves

that critics say bow to the country's

totalitarian government, including removing

an app for Hong Kong's residents that displayed the movement of local police.

Today on the show, Bloomberg editor Alistair Barb breaks down Apple's dilemma.

Can the company keep selling in China without losing its soul?

I'm Aki Ito, you're listening to Decrypted.

Stay with us. Hey Ali how's it going? I'm good. Do you want to introduce yourself? Yeah, I'm Alastebar.

I'm an editor on the tech team in the US.

I want to start a conversation today at the very beginning,

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