Apple pulls the plug on New York Times app in China at government’s behest

Apple has pulled the plug on the New York Times app from its app store in China at the behest of the Chinese government after it complained of a "violation of local regulations" in its reports.
China adopts a hard-line stance against foreign media companies operating in the country, blocking access to Google, Twitter and Facebook as part of its far-reaching censorship machinery.
In a sign of how supine western firms must be to operate in the world’s third largest market Apple axed bot