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China already does require backdoors of both local Chinese firms and foreign firms with HQs in China, although the requirement may not be "technically official" (it can certainly be interpreted that way from their 2017 law, though).

I think it's disgusting how supposed "democracies" have been trying to emulate China, both in terms of surveillance and censorship. UK is one of the worst offenders here -- sometimes they didn't even hide the fact they were using China as a role model.

There used to be a time when the U.S. government and other countries would condemn China for this sort of stuff.