Of course it's not the NSA that had already infiltrated their systems as Snowden revealed, no no no no. China is the nation's "top threat".

And even if it were China, does that mean they'll invest in local industries and become more technologically and resource sovereign? Will they educate their citizens about democracy, critical thinking, and how to recognise propaganda? Will they stop trying to legislate backdoors into all technology, reduce surveillance, and data collection?

Fuck China, US, South Korea and our own companies that spy on us everywhere we go and everything we do. It is mostly an education thing - people don't understand what the fuck they are doing and buying. They don't understand how much of their life sits on someone else's computer where it can be used for practically anything. Blaming it all on China without explaining the real risks is a misdirection. It does nothing to protect people from all the other abuses, some of which our intelligence community will be complicit in supporting.

It isn't in our sovereign interests for so much of our data and services to be controlled by big companies, often foreign, but it generally isn't in our individual interests either.

"But he warned people should not have highly sensitive conversations in their cars or near their phones, given foreign governments’ ability to listen in."

The thing he didn't say out loud is that the same warning applies to our own governments abilities to listen in lol

They’re worried the Chinese will understand our systems before we do.

Always has been bitch, let's go get you some fruit.

Lot of sinophobia being drummed up this year. Almost like they're manufacturing consent for when shit goes south. Personally i'd just stop sucking up to an insane actor taking a sledge hammer to the delicate trade underpinning keeping a loose peace but i'm not a vaunted politician what would i know.

But he warned people should not have highly sensitive conversations in their cars or near their phones, given foreign governments’ ability to listen in.

Hmmmm if only there were privacy and human rights advocates warning us that ubiquitious recording will be able to be turned against us. /s

Sure "my government wont abuse that information".

But a) private foreign companies do, b) as per this article, foreign governments do, and c) yes, push comes to shove, even "your" government will abuse these.