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Since its founding, the PRC has only fought two foreign wars, the last one being in 1979, in stark contrast to some other countries I could name. As a percentage of GDP, China spends about half what the US does on its military. It isn't China that has a dozen supercarrier fleets, it isn't China that has 600 overseas military bases, and it isn't China that has established military commands that span the Earth (China's territory falls under the American "Indo-Pacific Command," for example).

One could equally ask why the world should trust a company subject to the United States government. There is much more concrete evidence of American global surveillance than there is of Chinese global surveillance. The United States' foreign surveillance agency, the NSA, has a larger budget than all but a select few nations' militaries, not to mention intelligence services.

When it comes to surveillance, no one should trust any government (as a cute example, the Germans allowed the United States to build its massive new embassy right next to the Brandenburg Gate and the parliament building, and the United States repaid that kindness by installing equipment in the embassy to spy on the German parliament). China is no greater a worry than the United States is, and in practical terms, probably less of a worry. The concerns being expressed by the United States government at the moment are extremely hypocritical, and are driven by a larger fear of increasing Chinese global influence, which will eventually undermine the hegemonic position of the United States in the world.