>Apple is still a US company at the end of the day. If it makes profits from supporting censorship in China, that makes it a US problem.

In what possible way does it make it a US problem?

Besides, western companies make tons of money by selling arms, doing deals, and supporting all kinds of regimes, including the most abhorrent ones, from Pinochet's Chile to S.A.

Western people object to a lot of that, too.

Here, we're objecting to Apple's behaviour.

Because the actor deriving benefits from those profits is in our jurisdiction.

(I also wonder if they pay US taxes off any of these profits?)

That means every single nation would have to have its own company in every industry. No US food company would operate in Europe by this standard. And no Chinese Companies should sell anything back to US due to what you just describe.

It wouldn't have to. It would have to decide whether having its own distinct and incompatible basic values is worth it.