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Majority of the Chinese app eco-system is based on this HTML5, including WeChat mini-apps and Alibaba's Alipay and Taobao apps.

I hope Apple apply this guideline equally to all developers and do not Grant exceptions to WeChat or others in China being a bigger market.

Since WeChat mini-apps in HTML5 is a very large eco-system in China with its own security risks, let's see how this works in reality.

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It has always seemed like Apple has granted exceptions to this policy for any influential entities outside of the IT industry as long as they don’t compete with Apple.

Apps for brick-and-mortar organizations, such as banks and retailers, are a good example. They’re all almost exclusively simple wrappers around a practically unusable website. Many of them work worse in the wrapper than in a browser; for example, bank statement downloads are often broken.

Not going to happen. Apple has a very realpolitik approach to it's totalitarianism. China is not an adversary Apple can take on, by it's own internal judgement. Hence, iCloud China runs on Chinese government controlled cloud with possibly full access to data. Hence, WeChat and co. will never be meted out the same draconian polices that companies without state patronage get.

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