[Bayart]

China passed a law in 2017 requiring all Chinese citizens and organizations to comply with their intelligence departments in relinquishing any information it needs, as well as to keep it secret.

See https://en.pkulaw.cn/display.aspx?cgid=313975&lib=law

A US agency may put pressure on a US company, but the company would be perfectly within its rights to refuse to comply. The only exceptions are well documented and go through the judiciary which is separate from the executive branch of government.

A Chinese company has by law no choice but to comply.

[sbarre]

You've heard of the FISA Court right? And all the details that Snowden released about it? How do you see those secret requests as not effectively the same thing as what you are describing about China's laws?

I don't consider myself a tin-foil-hat wearing type, but even I don't believe that our (western/NATO/5-Eyes etc) governments don't have their own secret powers they can use to compel businesses to comply with information gathering requests without divulging that they did so.