I'm not convinced that is any more worrisome than the US situation as long as you don't trust them with your private keys. The US also monitors/intercepts inter

I'm not convinced that is any more worrisome than the US situation as long as you don't trust them with your private keys. The US also monitors/intercepts internet traffic, except they do so (pre-Snowden anyway) secretly. They actually do a lot of things China gets accused of -- just think of the CISCO router "upgrade" facility.