If you're worry is the Chinese spying on you, you can look at the code and double check. Furthermore the US govt spies on us on a massive scale as Snowden showed us.
Second when it comes to software quality they started much later than us but our culture has as much finding shortcuts to success as theirs.
Case in point: open AI killing off the team to make AI stuff to make a quick profit. Stealing copyrighted work on a massive scale to train llms.
So get off your high horse. Stop trying to hide your dumbness (lack of critical thinking) behind an intellectual sounding comment.