Tim Cook shows up in Shanghai ahead of new Apple Store opening

Cook, who a year ago called Apple’s relationship with China ‘symbiotic’, appears to be in Shanghai to lend his imprimatur to the opening of Apple Jingan, the company’s eighth store in the city. — AFP

Apple Inc chief executive officer Tim Cook posted a video of himself in Shanghai on March 20, a day before the grand opening of a new store in the city’s central district.

Joined on a walk around China’s financial and commercial hub by Chinese actor Zheng Kai, Cook is shown crossing a bridge near the historic Bund and having xiaolongbao in a local restaurant. The Weibo post, under his official account, included Cook saying “hello” in a Shanghai dialect and was seen by half a million people within minutes of being posted.