Unfortunately, the Chinese government has only gotten bolder since the U.S. government has publicly become an enemy of encryption itself. The damage would be far greater if the U.S. actually passed a law mandating backdoors, but even just talking about it and making a &quot;scandal&quot; out of it, has probably encouraged Chinese government to be more aggressive about it in its own country.<p>Remember when the U.S. government at least <i>pretended</i> to care about things like privacy and human rights internationally. Now it seems to be more like &quot;Wait, China did it? Why can&#x27;t <i>we</i> do it then?!&quot;. Case in point, in a recent encryption hearing, law enforcement argued that if Apple showed its source code to the Chinese government (it didn&#x27;t), then it should also show it to the US gov!