What Snowden seems to have inadvertently revealed is a culture that is a lot more interested in posturing around these issues than the issues themselves. And its those breaking the illusion be it Snowden, Manning or Assange who will face the music while civil society looks the other way.
No one has been held accountable for these illegal programs. The then head of NSA James Clapper brazenly lied to Congress and has still not being held accountable. [7]. On the contrary there is a grand jury out to get Assange, Manning is back in jail and Snowden is being hounded and in exile. No good deed goes unpunished.
China had nothing to do with the Snowden leaks or any of these secret mass surveillance programs as you will discover. Happy reading!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_(surveillance_program...
[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant
[6] https://theintercept.com/search/?s=snowden
[7] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/republicans-co...