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If Apple execs conducted espionage on behalf of the US Government, they should be targeted. The concern is, they don't, but they will still be targeted.

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So far the only major international espionage scandal that was proven (unless you consider Snowden a liar) was the NSA scandal, which showed how American companies were involved in an international scheme (willingly or not, it doesn’t matter) to spy on both allied nations and enemy countries. Nothing like that has ever emerged about China.

That’s because it isn’t a story. People are routinely arrested in China for things they share on the very-much-not-encrypted WeChat. Anything that goes through any chinese tech company can be assumed to be have been read and processed by the government.

So, how is this comparable to what I wrote? We are talking about China spying on foreign nations through the products sold by a national company.

Has it been proven that America did that? YES, unless you choose to dismiss Snowden's revelations.

Has China ever done that? NO, or at least it has never emerged.

These are the facts.

Is China a repressive regime controlling the digital comms of its citizens? sure thing, but what has this to do with what we were discussing above?

Basic logic, damn, basic logic.

US intelligence has embedded themselves in virtually all major players in Silicon Valley. They'd be stupid not to.

What about NSA backdoors built into all US Corporations platforms?

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