Apple’s Tim Cook Arrives in China to Reassure Skeptics

Customers take photographs during the opening of the new Apple store in Shanghai.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Hello, this is Allen Wan in Shanghai.

Or should I say, nonghao? That’s how Apple CEO Tim Cook greeted the city this week, busting out his Shanghainese to herald the opening of Apple's eighth store there.