Ars Technica:

In an excoriating op-ed, China’s state-run newspaper Global Times warned that the People’s Republic would adopt “a tit-for-tat approach,” and would simply stop buying American goods, including the Apple products that are so popular there. It said:

“A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. US auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and US soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the US.”

No one believes this is just saber rattling on the part of the Chinese government. Sadly, the shortsighted response from many will be, “Just buy Android phones”, but that will ignore the enormous financial harm such actions will visit upon Apple and others.