This comes back to my initial question: if data is encrypted by my key before it ever leaves my device, as Apple has repeatedly claimed, why should it matter to

This comes back to my initial question: if data is encrypted by my key before it ever leaves my device, as Apple has repeatedly claimed, why should it matter to me? China can have all the encrypted blobs of my data they want. I have to assume that unencrypted information has always been available to the CCP on request, even more readily than it is to US law enforcement.