[randomNumber7]

And the argument is pretty weak. It doesnt cost them much to introduce cryptographic backdoors. Once they have done this they have even more control. It is then also less effort, because you don't have to deal with a company (like WeChat) directly to spy on their customers.

[tptacek]

Look at the weaknesses in this blog post; can you tell me which ones are suggestive of a broadly-useful backdoor that would be deployed to avoid having to deal directly with Tencent, which is already controlled by the CCP?