For all software the government itself uses, yes, but the article is detailing a law in China that gives them the ability to just take ALL data (and source code) unilaterally if it exists anywhere within the border.
So China is publicly announcing that it's deploying what the Five Eyes have deployed in democratic countries under the cover of darkness across the world (while lying to their citizens, who have a constitutional right to know)?
IllogicalLogic, these discussions have more value when we focus on the topic at hand, not devolve into whataboutism. Your comparison is both a mischaracterization and off-topic.
Not whataboutism, if the case can be made that 350 million people need protection then the case can more easily be made for 1.3 billion people.
Wikileaks also showed us that US agencies were engaged in industrial espionage, stealing German/French industrial technology using the Five Eyes tools and giving it to GE & friends ...
The problem is, my more "reality-based" framing destroys the "China is uniquely evil" narrative that western media/gov is pushing everywhere for primarily economic reasons.
