[bangboombang]

Which isn't that easy, since the world isn't black and white. And do I even care about morals, or mostly just about my personal data?

As an American it's probably easy to make a choice here, but as a 3rd party I'm not so sure. The US has definitely wreaked more havoc across the globe during the past century, from overthrowing democratic governments to bombing the shit out of countries. The Chinese are reckless whenever they see someone threatening their authority, but egoistically speaking, that 99% applies to Chinese nationals or people living in China. Not my problem.

If my country would go with US equipment, I already know they will get all my data because of things like the patriot act and all the niceties Snowden revealed the NSA et al have.

The Chinese probably have the same, but we don't know anything definitive, which makes it more scary, also they are evil commies. But then again, having access to telco infra only means they get meta data, since traffic is all encrypted nowadays, while the US still gets all my content thanks to Facebook/WhatsApp, Google/Gmail, Amazon, ..., no matter what the 5G equipment is. So is it safer to then say you better buy the 5G stuff from the US so only one party can steal all your data?

[caconym_]

I don't think I implied it's easy. I commented because whataboutism drags us into moral territory, and having been so dragged we should attempt to form robust moral judgments rather than making do with hey, man, like, it's all relative, you know?

[bangboombang]

Didn't mean you said it is. Just wanted to go further with that thought from my perspective, because I assume the majority of users on here are from the US and thus might not immediately see why this whole situation isn't as easy to decide on for everybody. Thus I just tried to lay out several aspects you might consider as an "outsider", and hopefully I didn't make it look like there is a final conclusion to that.