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Downloading apps from App Store is very slow in China and sometimes you can't even open App Store successfully. It's not Apple's fault (but Apple should do something to solve it). The real cause is the gov and GFW. Many developers use XunLei(Thunder, a p2p downloading tool) to accelerate downloading. I used it too when I was in Shanghai China. After I moved to Hong Kong, I always download directly from App Store and the downloading speed is about 5MB/s.

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What can Apple reliably do without exposing the source code and attribution (with signig) of every file used to generate the app, run inside a signed environment on a locked down computer?

Please. This is the GFW.

I think that at least Apple could put the Xcode binary files onto a CDN inside China. I'm trying to download Xcode 7.0 from the App Store today, and it's still hanging after a few hours.

And when that CDN has a hiccup dozens of iOS developers go elsewhere.

Also, this is by no means an Xcode problem only. It potentially affects every piece of software and even code rehosted from github. Does that copy of that library developed on github, mirrored on Baidu, contain a backdoor?

Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213313

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