[namlem]

Not necessarily. If a company doesn't engage in commerce then it can be based in one country and provide services in other countries regardless of their laws, so long as their home country is willing to resist attempts by other countries to prosecute them.

[rightbyte]

Americans and European should use Chinese chat providers and vice versa. No joking. Small Islandoneasea might be bullied to comply.

Best would obviously be to use some FOSS true E2E encryption app that actually prompt you for accepting keys.