Yea, countries are looking for alternatives to US based services. No matter how secure it may seem, they can't control every aspect of the supply chain.

Signal is bound to Google and Apple's platforms to operate reliably, centralized, and these platforms are beyond evil and are well-known to bend the knee for authoritarians ^1,2^

1. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/us-senator-warns-governments-spying-apple-google-smartphone-users-via-push-notifications/
2. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/apple-stops-weirdly-storing-data-that-let-cops-spy-on-signal-chats/