Wasn't there this announcement recently that the Five Eyes was "asking" vendors to provide backdoors voluntarily, or else? And all the governments engaging in

Wasn't there this announcement recently that the Five Eyes was "asking" vendors to provide backdoors voluntarily, or else? And all the governments engaging in this kind of behavior are at the same time giving each other excuses, "because every one else is doing it, too". So if China does this, you can be sure other countries will point to China's example and require their own backdoors. Let's just hope all those backdoors are mutually incompatible.