I feel like that almost proves my point: the Chinese government is very reluctant to allow foreign companies to own a majority of any dominant technology in China, while the inverse is simply never even discussed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/china-call...
So instead they sold it to Zayo, the US telecom giant. At least from an ISP industry insider perspective Zayo is trustworthy and has the precedent of providing some 'critical' circuits for different US federal agencies.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/allstream-sale-to-acc...