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Apple CEO Tim Cook meets Chinese vice premier to ease relations following alleged iCloud attacks

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

October 23, 2014 | 3 min read

Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple. has begun "cooperation" talks with Ma Kai, the vice premier of China, following a week of attacks on the iCloud service from within the nation's borders.

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The meeting coincided with a ‘man-in-the-middle’ attack on the iCloud storage service earlier this week which came from China, tricking users into sharing account names and passwords through a fake log-in page.

The Californian firm did not comment on who perpetrated the attacks however, the ‘Great Fire’, a website which archives which sites are banned by China’s firewall, blamed sources in the nation’s government.

China later denied accusations it was behind the attacks on Apple’s servers. Notably, the nation will not be able to monitor new Apple users through conventional means as the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are now fully encrypted.

The duo reportedly discussed “strengthening cooperation in information and communication fields” between the American corporation and, what is now the world’s largest smartphone market, according to Chinese state news outlet Xinhua.

During what Cook called his ‘China road trip’, the Apple chief executive also visited the Foxconn iPhone factory where he praised worker Zhang Fan for showing him around.

This comes after the Chinese government delayed the launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in September amid concerns its security was too lax to protect consumer data.

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