What Apple stands to gain from a backdoor? It's clear what the cost of risk is, but what is the gain?
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China - https://nyti.ms/3oAvIVH
> Apple has largely ceded control to the Chinese government.
Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. And the digital keys that unlock information on those computers are stored in the data centers they’re meant to secure.