A former Apple employee alleges in a lawsuit that the company punished him for approving an app critical of the Chinese regime in order to appease Beijing authorities. The allegations were made by Trieu Pham, a former app reviewer for the tech giant, in a discrimination and wrongful termination suit filed at the Santa Clara Superior Court in December 2019. In his complaint, Pham states that in 2018 he was criticized by his Apple managers for approving an app by Guo Media because it was “critical of the Chinese government.” Guo Media is a website created by Guo Wengui, a dissident Chinese businessman exiled in the United States and wanted by Beijing on alleged economic crimes. He is known for making allegations about massive corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership. The claims cast a spotlight on how the tech giant navigates its relationship with …