Commentary Apple has a “responsibility” to do business wherever it can. No country is off limits, not even China—a known violator of human rights. That’s the opinion of Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. On Nov. 9, at The New York Times’ virtual Dealbook conference, Cook said in a speech that his aim was to achieve “world peace through world trade.” To achieve this, we must “acknowledge that there are different laws in other markets,” he said. In other words, we have no plans of extricating ourselves from the Chinese market—not now, not ever. The Chinese market is far too lucrative. Apple sells an average of 10 iPhones every second; that’s almost 850,000 per day. A high percentage of these are sold in China. In its fiscal fourth quarter, as Reuters reported, Apple Inc. posted “a staggering 83% annual sales growth,” making it the phone of choice for millions of Chinese citizens. Not only are a large number of iPhones sold in …