And, importantly, the USA spying can actually have an impact on your life in a way that the Chinese spying can't. Suppose you live in the USA and the USA is sp

And, importantly, the USA spying can actually have an impact on your life in a way that the Chinese spying can't. Suppose you live in the USA and the USA is spying on you. Whatever information they collect goes into a machine learning system and it flags you for disappearal. You get disappeared. Suppose you live in the USA and China is spying on you. Whatever information they collect goes into a machine learning system and it flags you for disappearal. But you're not in China and have no ties to China so nothing happens to you. This is a strictly better scenario than the first one. If you're living in China with a Chinese family, of course, the scenarios are reversed.