The US government is no saint in terms of mass surveillance but there is a gigantic gulf between US governments mass surveillance and China, I think to act otherwise is a bit disingenuous.
[1]. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/10/1060982/china-pa...
At that point it is not disingenuous, its brain washed.
Could you point me towards something that corrects me where I'm wrong i.e. not that they both don't do it but that they are doing mass surveillance at similar scales?