Welk yes, but China has been less interested in the data of regular civilians outside of China. Google and the likes have been spying on us all for more than a decade now through the accounts we’ve willingly made with them.

Of course the Chinese are spying on regular people too, but it’s not so much their primary way of making profit as it is for Google.

And like I said: foreign people don’t really care what another country does internally . They care about what affects them: whether their food or their gas is more expensive, whether they can afford to go on vacation, and whether the world feels safe and stable or is a massive powder keg that’s about to blow.