In China, many companies are extensions of the state apparatus, not truly independent. It's easy for China to see large American corporations as extensions of t

In China, many companies are extensions of the state apparatus, not truly independent. It's easy for China to see large American corporations as extensions of the US state. Snowden's revelations about how Microsoft has "partnered" with the NSA to build backdoors for American surveillance make it more difficult to refute that view.