With reports that Cook has met with China Mobile, and now the news that Jobs has met several times, we are getting closer and closer to a legal China Mobile iPhone.
China has been in the news a few times in the last year for odd theme parks and tourist attractions, including in several outlets for a dwarf community in southwest China.
Xinhua news agency, China Daily, Global Times and other state mouthpieces see Apple boss Tim Cook's apology for any misunderstandings that had led to the perception that Apple's attitude was arrogant in its dealings with Chinese consumers as better late than never and call for an end to "double standards" and privileges for foreign companies in China.
Newspapers including the Chongqing Economic Times and China Daily published only a report by the official Xinhua News Agency in their inside pages, without further commentaries.
In other defence news, an editorial in bilingual Global Times hails China's successful test flight of its first heavy transport aircraft Y-20 as an "important step forward" in military modernisation.