> AFAIK China does not intercept all of my country's communications, which the US has been doing for decades. Well I think that's a brash assumption. Without

> AFAIK China does not intercept all of my country's communications, which the US has been doing for decades. Well I think that's a brash assumption. Without Snowden, we wouldn't have known about the extent of US surveillance. A "Chinese Snowden" would not have their revelations accessible to China via their great-firewalled internet or state-run news, nor would the chilling effects of their Orwellian surveillance state likely produce such a person to begin with.