It's not just Chinese laws, Zoom has shutdown accounts of Chinese dissidents who are residing in California.[1] This seems like more than just complying with local laws; it's actively supporting the policy of a government upon people who do not even live there.
Quite easily. They just need to make it so that one of the "ends" is Zoom itself.
Zoom isn't an end. That's not what "end" means in the context of "end to end".
It shouldn't be, but if you don't control the software and the encryption algorithm, there's no reason why zoom couldn't just sign the content so that could evesdrop on everything.
If you don't have end-to-end encryption, then yes, Zoom can man-in-the-middle your conversation. That is how we know Zoom doesn't have end-to-end encryption.
That doesn't mean end-to-end encryption is pointless, if that's what you're implying.
Signing has nothing to do with eavesdropping.
That's simply not correct. If you don't have authentication you don't have encryption.
That’s actually what they did before. They’ve been claiming to have e2ee for a while now and their excuse when caught was just that.