The latest assault on Apple by Chinese media is motivated by several factors, including frustration that the company isn't investing more in China.
Beijing's recent campaign to bash iPhone maker Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is starting to border on the bizarre, with the official Communist Party newspaper the People's Daily launching the latest assault on the world's biggest tech company.
I've lived in China for quite a while now, and have seen occasional attacks on major foreign names in the official Chinese media, including my own former employer Reuters. But most of those attacks are related to specific incidents, and usually lasted a week or 2 at the most before the issue was quietly retired.