Earlier this month, the U.S. media Bloomberg hype China to nearly 30 U.S. technology companies implanted ' malicious chips ', despite the company Apple, Amazon's ' Quick rumor ', even the U.S. official ' face ', but Bloomberg still ' deadly ' to insist on its statement.
Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, made the first public comment on Bloomberg's allegations in an interview on the night of 18th local time and called for the official withdrawal of the false news, according to a news report from the US media BuzzFeed. Bloomberg Business Week said earlier this month that nearly 30 U.S. technology companies, including Apple and Amazon, were implanted with a micro ' malicious chip ' by Chinese intelligence agencies.
In this way, China will be able to access the intranet of these enterprises with little effort and secrecy.
Even shortly after the report was released, Apple, Amazon, immediately issued a statement denying the allegations, and dismissed many of the statements as untrue.
But Bloomberg still insists on its original statement and even released a follow-up report.
Tim Cook responded angrily to the BuzzFeed News interview on the evening of 18th, local time.
' Their reports about Apple are not true, ' Mr. Cook said. ' They need to do the right thing and withdraw the false report '. The report said it was an unprecedented statement by Cook and Apple.
The company has never publicly asked to withdraw a news report, even in the event of a major error in the report or a false report.
' I was involved in the response from the outset, ' said Mr. Cook, ' and Brousse Severs, the general counsel for me and Apple, also spoke to a Bloomberg correspondent personally, and we told them very clearly that none of this had happened and that we had answered all the questions they had raised. ' "Every time they tell us about it, the story changes," Cook said.
He says Bloomberg reporters have never provided Apple with any specifics about ' malicious chips '.
In addition, Mr. Cook noted that Apple conducted a ' three-foot digging ' survey of the company, searching e-mails, financial records, data center records, shipping records, and Apple, after a detailed survey, came to the same conclusion every time that the situation reported by Bloomberg had never happened.
When asked if things like what Bloomberg described would happen without knowing, cook bluntly, ' This possibility is 0 '. After that, BuzzFeed News reporters contacted Bloomberg.
But its spokesman insisted that ' we have confidence in our stories and sources ', ' Bloomberg Businessweek's survey was the result of more than a year of reporting, and we had more than 100 interviews '.
Second, as the United States has already stood up and denied, my Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lu Kang, said at a press conference earlier that, ' Do you think there is a need for China to respond? ' If you're really interested, you can ask Bloomberg Businessweek how to respond to these statements? Cook: China | ' Malicious Chip ' | Is totally bogus news, calling for Bloomberg to withdraw