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If you replace government with authorities it's basically the same. US authorities also buy information from tech companies, which has been very clearly revealed on several occasions, where police buy information that would be illegal to set up the surveillance to get themselves. Obviously when police and intelligence services do it, it's practically the same as the government. It's just weird to claim the "government" can do it, because of course they can. Just like USA has made regulation that American companies can't claim secrecy on things they have on servers in EU, if a court or authorities ask for it, despite EU regulation makes it illegal to pass on outside EU.
No doubt USA is in the wrong too on this issue, whether China is worse IDK.