It wouldn't make a difference if only client code was open-sourced, sure. But if the entire system was open for Americans to peruse and operate their shards of

It wouldn't make a difference if only client code was open-sourced, sure. But if the entire system was open for Americans to peruse and operate their shards of, that might be a different story. Not saying that is practical, but I've never seen an objection on nationalist grounds to the fully open-source code I wrote from China while employed by a Chinese company in 2012-14.