Google has refused to cooperate with authoritarian governments and even left China over it. Unlike Apple and MS...
That said, if you live in China, you probably don't want to sync your stuff to iCloud. Not because Apple doesn't want to protect your data, but more because you can't trust anything in any data centers that are physically on Chinese soil.
But let's get real. If you're in mainland China and the authorities decide they need to confiscate your phone, you're already fscked.
Versus Google which has avoided giving information to or censoring search results in both countries and as a result is mostly banned.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-is-fined-390-mln-r...
Google's given up on business there but still puts their sites out there (as they should).
That statement is kind of information-free. If China knows they have Apple completely over the barrel, why wouldn't they demand a lot?
But for how they cooperate, Apple's own transparency report shows they give information on Apple customers to Chinese authorities thousands of times per year, and accept the vast majority of requests: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/cn.html
Likewise in Russia: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/ru.html
Funny how you specifically mention China, as if it worked differently in USA - the country where you can get four years of jail time for talking back to police.
So now everyone is doing the same thing so called value the 'privacy' (aka only they could collect the data for themselves to do personalized ads). So in the end you pick the one who hoard ur data and show the ads. What's the difference again?
Regardless, I care less about the US government having my info than, say, Russia (especially being part Ukrainian, having Ukrainian friends and family, etc...).