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Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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T R A I T O R. And, just like the NBA, Blizzard, Elon Musk and Hollywood, condoning random executions for organ harvesting and imposing China's totalitarian will and values on the rest of the world with their actions. If we don't resist now, the Western world will become even more Orwellian/Kafkaesque.

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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For the record, School of Economics and Management (SEM) of Tsinghua University has always been having high caliber business leaders, Nobel Laureate, central bank governor and government officials on their board.[1] e.g.

In fact, I doubt any school has a better advisory board than that of SEM of Tsinghua's, anywhere in the world.

Even Hardvard / MIT / Yale's school dean/provost are on Tsinghua's board. If as an CEO, you aren't invited to the board and you want to be global, you are doing it wrong.

Here is a partial list:

- Lord Browne of Madingley, Chairman of Huawei UK

- Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

- H. Lee Scott, Jr., Former President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

- WANG Qishan, Vice-President, People’s Republic of China

- Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital

- Mary T. Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company

- Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

- Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev

- CHEN Jining, Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government

- Elon Musk

- Mark Zuckerberg

- Michael L. Corbat, CEO, Citigroup Inc.

- Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

- Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock, Inc.

- Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

- Nobuyuki Idei, Former Chairman and Group CEO, Sony Corporation

- Muhtar Kent, Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company

- Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR

- Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG

- Ramon Laguarta, CEO, PepsiCo

- LIU He, yes the chief U.S.-Sino trade deal negotiator, Vice-Premier, State Council, People’s Republic of China

- Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

- Pony Ma, Core Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Tencent

- Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Walmart Inc.

- Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

- Nitin Nohria, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean, Harvard Business School

- Richard C. Levin Senior Adviser and Former CEO, Coursera President Emeritus, Yale University

- Brian L. Roberts Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation

- Ginni Rometty Chairman, President and CEO, IBM

- David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group

- David C. Schmittlein John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

- Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone

- Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman, Nokia Corporation Chairman and Founder, F-Secure Corporation

- Kevin Sneader Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company

- Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

- A. Michael Spence, Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

- YI Gang, Governor, People’s Bank of China

[1]: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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A selection of other members of this university board: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Chairman, Paulson Institute Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Mary T. Barra Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company Lloyd C. Blankfein Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Carlos Brito CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev M…

This may be the most A-list group of people I've ever seen assembled for anything. It screams how important China is.

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard. But it's still not Harvard. The question is, "Why not Harvard? Or any other top school in the US?"

Because China is important. And, unlike the Arab oil producers, China actually has the human capital to create a university that competes with Harvard for prestige. Get used to stuff like this. Tim Cook is about 10 steps ahead of everybody who gives him a hard time for how Apple deals with China.

Why now? Are they using Tim Cook or is he a visionary?

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard. But it's still not Harvard. The question is, "Why not Harvard? Or any other top school in the US?"

Because China is important. And, unlike the Arab oil producers, China actually has the human capital to create a university that competes with Harvard for prestige. Get used to stuff like this. Tim Cook is about 10 steps ahead of everybody who gives him a hard time for how Apple deals with China.

Can you elaborate on the importance and how that factors into Apple’s strategy? Saying that China is important and Tim Cook is Very Smart doesn’t make for a very enlightening comment nor a suitable rebuttal. If you’re onto something, I’d like to know what! :)

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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post #22

For the record, School of Economics and Management (SEM) of Tsinghua University has always been having high caliber business leaders, Nobel Laureate, central bank governor and government officials on their board.[1] e.g. In fact, I doubt any school has a better advisory board than that of SEM of Tsinghua's, anywhere in the world. Even Hardvard / MIT / Yale's school dean/provost are on Tsinghua's board. If as an CEO,…

That's what the headline did not elucidate well.

People should at least read about Tsinghua University first before automatically judging it for being Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tim Cook will work closely with Chinese government officials to promote Tsinghua University's economics and management school Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.

It's their MIT. Peking University is their Harvard.

Checking both of these universities' websites, I see that they have social networks listed on their footers. Tsinghua's Facebook and Instagram accounts have been inactive for 2 years, but Peking's are active, both with posts from today.

I find this interesting given the Chinese censorship of these sites. Sure, a VPN would work, but I would be pretty amused if Chinese educational institutions are actually bypassing the censors.

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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A selection of other members of this university board: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Chairman, Paulson Institute Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Mary T. Barra Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company Lloyd C. Blankfein Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Carlos Brito CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev M…

From Wikipedia

> Since 2015, Tsinghua University has overtaken the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to top the list of Best Global Universities for Engineering published by the U.S. News & World Report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University#Rankings

Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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post #23

A selection of other members of this university board: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Chairman, Paulson Institute Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Mary T. Barra Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company Lloyd C. Blankfein Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Carlos Brito CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev M…

This may be the most A-list group of people I've ever seen assembled for anything. It screams how important China is.

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Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

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post #23

A selection of other members of this university board: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Chairman, Paulson Institute Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Mary T. Barra Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company Lloyd C. Blankfein Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Carlos Brito CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev M…

This may be the most A-list group of people I've ever seen assembled for anything. It screams how important China is.

I doubt many (or any) of them do much of anything on the board.
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