>“request relevant organs, organisations, and citizens provide necessary support, assistance, and cooperation”. According to Article 16, intelligence officials “may enter relevant restricted areas and venues; may learn from and question relevant institutions, organisations, and individuals; and may read or collect relevant files, materials or items”
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...
Anyway, there is a new bill trying to kill e2ee in America https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202110
There are some specific carve-outs for telecom companies that their networks must have the ability to tap into specific traffic when a government agency comes knocking with a warrant.
But, as you point out, backdoor-free e2e encryption is not yet illegal, and the US gov't can't force e.g. Apple to put a backdoor in iMessage or in iOS's device encryption.
I expect that this is not the case in China; if the CCP tells a company to do something, anything, to allow them to spy on their users, they do it, or they get destroyed.
Bills like the EARN IT Act scare the hell out of me, but at least there's a process by which it becomes law, and we can affect that process and (hopefully) kill it. That's just not possible in China.
In theory, in the same sense that one could influence what CCP does by becoming a member of it and rising through the ranks.