That's easy: The Chinese government could infiltrate the factory and keep a record of the on-chip private key, then kill anyone who doesn't agree to go along with it. Or bug the programming devices. Chinese courts are far from independent - they do as they are ordered by the Communist party, and rulings highly depend on guanxi or connections (family, party, or both).
The whole security key thing relies on a chain of trust. Unless you are designing your own chips (and verifying samples of them to ensure nothing has been added), you can't ever really know if some bad actor or state actor has compromised the chain somewhere along the way.
So far in the US, such things are not legally required and where ordered by lower courts the appeals courts have overruled them. As it stands today the government can't require anyone outside of a telephone company to implement any technological measure to assist them in spying (telcos are required to assist with wiretaps). Companies might go along with a request of course.
I'm not saying there is a perfect solution here, but in general I trust chips and devices manufactured in the US and Sweden to a much higher degree than devices made in China.