In Apple (AAPL) - Get Report vs. China, it's China that should rethink its stance.

TheStreet's Jim Cramer reacted to newsFriday of a shutdown of Apple's book and movie services by Chinese regulators. He believes that China, not Apple, should reconsider its position. "Apple has gone out of its way, I think, to be good to China, and I think China has to rethink its policies right now," he says. Cramer compared Apple's situation to other tech companies that have had trouble in China as well.

Facebook (FB) - Get Report has been blocked by Beijing since 2009, though the social media giant hasn't thrown in the towel on its China aspirations. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has continued to court the country, learning and giving a speech in Chinese and meeting with China's Liu Yunshan, the company's propaganda chief.

"Facebook still has some relationship with China, and they've cultivated that relationship. Zuckerberg learned Chinese, shows great respect to the Chinese, which is what you have to do," Cramer adds.

Twitter (TWTR) - Get Report , like Facebook, has been banned on mainland China since 2009, though the company continues to court Chinese advertisers from a Hong Kong office opened last year and recently hired a new managing director to strengthen efforts.

Alphabet's (GOOGL) - Get Report Google has been blocked in China since 2010 after it refused to comply with government censorship requirements.

"Google is a free-speech situation," Cramer says, looping back to the current dust-up with Apple. "I don't know why they're playing hardball, because Apple is not a free-speech situation."

China has shut downApple's (AAPL) - Get Report book and movie services in the country. The question now is whether this latest event will be the exception in the generally friendly relationship between the two. Or will it be the new rule?

Apple has largely been perceived as a tech success story in China, so the news that regulators there clamped down on its iBooks Store and iTunes Movies services last week comes as a major surprise. The question now is whether the event is just a blip, or if it's something shareholders should worry about. Might China come to an agreement to restart sales soon?

"We hope to make books and movies available again to our customers in China as soon as possible," an Apple spokeswoman said in a statement to the New York Times, which first reported the halt late Thursday night.

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Greater China is an important market for Apple, comprising about a quarter of its revenues, says Angelo Zino, analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, in a phone interview Friday morning.

According to its first-quarter earnings report, Apple brought in $18.4 billion in revenue through its Greater China operating segment during the period, a 14% increase from the same period a year prior. Only the Americas outranks the region in volume.

"From a perception basis, this could have bigger implications, given that China is expected to really be the biggest growth driver for the company for the next several years," Zino says.

This isn't the first time an Apple service has run into roadblocks in China, Reuters pointed out. Its News app, launched last year, doesn't work there. State media once branded the company's iPhone a danger to national security, and in March, regulations came into effect that bar foreign ownership and joint ventures in online publishing and require all content be stored in local Chinese servers.

As to what's next for Apple in China, it's a wait-and-see situation. "I think it's possible," adds Zino, though he doesn't think it's likely in the immediate future, or at least unless it indicates a broader shift. "Clearly, if this is the start of a trend out in China, it would pose a risk for Apple."

Investors will soon get a glimpse of Apple's finances in China and worldwide when it reports earnings Tuesday, April 26, after the close.

Apple shares were down slightly in late-morning trading on Friday to $105.04.