All agreed up until the "100% certain they don't mass track everyone in Europe part"—what's the basis for that strong certainty? That they don't want to, they r

All agreed up until the "100% certain they don't mass track everyone in Europe part"—what's the basis for that strong certainty? That they don't want to, they realize it would be wrong, they don't think it would be worth it, or just that they can't because the European governments aren't facilitating it or looking the other way when they do it? There are quite a few mass surveillance techniques that don't require support from a local government: * undersea cable tapping * hacking routers * hacking servers * bribing people * backdooring hardware * spy satellites * RF surveillance from embassies or shell companies Several of those seem pretty plausible for me for the PRC to be using against Europeans. :-(