Quite jarring to see how many people think the Chinese authoritarian regime, and the tech that it allows to be created in that country, are going to be "safer" or whatever than US tech.

It's trendy to say the US govt is now authorization, but that's just pure naïve groupthink.

It's just the anti-Americanism that has typified the Euroleft for decades. You can find people complaining about it back in the 1800s. As can be seen by how much American product Europe consumes it's not actually an influential mode of thought, just a form of ingroup signalling, so it can largely be ignored.

American security services can touch Americans, Chinese ones can't. That's even assuming the worst about China, which I don't think is appropriate.