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China is a country that doesn't care about the individual. If it's in their interest to give your information to the Americans they will.
The best solution is really GrapheneOS.
Literally a country dictated by it's individuals
Im sure the people in prison in China for trying to unionize but being denied because the state ran union decided it was again the "national" interest agree with you.
You have to admit that relative to America which leans more towards individual rights, China leans more towards collective rights.
What do you mean by China not caring about the individual? Are you referring to how they center the working classes over private interests?
In America the justice system leans strongly in favour of the defence (unless you're poor, but we'll put that aside for now). In China and east Asia more generally the justice system leans towards maintaining social harmony even if it means a higher risk of convicting the wrong person.
Neat trick the tankies hate: the West is perfect if you just say that the biggest counterexample is irrelevant!
There's definitely an algorithm that decides if any arbitrary algorithm will halt or not (unless you feed its own source code back into itself, but we'll put that aside for now).
I'm explaining the cultural difference, not judging one as better or worse. America is more individualist and China is more collectivist.
This seems more like orientalism than an actual thing. The US is set up that way because it values capitalists above all else as a capitalist country, and this system puts them above the law.