Just after Apple’s iCloud service faced a hacking attack from China, Apple CEO Tim Cook met with a Chinese official on Wednesday to discuss protecting users’ privacy.

Cook met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai in Beijing to talk about “strengthening” cooperation in the telecommunication sector, in addition to discussing security issues and other topics, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency said.

Even before becoming CEO, Cook has regularly visited mainland China, which is one of Apple’s biggest markets and where many of its contract suppliers are based. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest visit.

Days prior to the visit, Internet experts began noticing that Apple’s iCloud service had been targeted in a “man-in-the-middle attack” coming from China. Visits to the iCloud website within the country mysteriously returned untrusted digital certificates, a sign that a hacker had tampered with the connection to intercept username and password information.

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