I'm tagging on to this, not being from the US or china, I can't see how one is worse than the other. The idea that china is a bad guy while the us is a good guy doesn't really make sense to me, they both does what is in the best interest of themselves.
Some people think some countries shouldn't handle their information at all. They really shouldn't store their data in the cloud if they're concerned about state sponsored spying though.
They say security is only for the paranoid. But wow, I never thought it would come to this level!
I'm curious, why isn't apple producing their own servers? They had XServe back in the good old days...
x86 servers are a commodity. There is no way for a company like Apple to get the margins they want on manufacturing that kind of hardware. Data center buyers don't care about brushed aluminum cases with no visible fasteners.