https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180226/11345039309/apple-agrees-to-store-chinese-icloud-data-china-making-it-much-easier-chinese-govt-to-access-it.shtml

In a time when law enforcement officials are calling Apple "evil" and demanding access to encrypted communications, it doesn't make much sense for the company to be doing this.

When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud.