In america it is my understanding you can be legally forced by intelligence agencies to provide confidential info about your company and legally forced to not d

In america it is my understanding you can be legally forced by intelligence agencies to provide confidential info about your company and legally forced to not disclose it to your company. There's no reason to believe it's different in any other countries, in particular countries that have a an obvious confrontational stance against "the west" and are at least semi authoritarian. So a person maybe a "nice/trustworthy person" but because of such laws, working with a person from a country equal granting access to your internal infos to the whole country this person is a citizen of.