I'm not familiar, but it was US's own NSA that was caught red handed. China has an aura of non compliance and state sponsored hacking but I trust them as much as the US.
I don't think China cares about my personal secrets nearly as much as the US does, but they are pretty actively engaging in state-sponsored corporate espionage.
> I would trust them to protect the trade secrets of a business
Would you trust a US business to protect your personal secrets more than the US government? Why?
America cares more about corporate rights than human rights.
Foreigners have basically all the same rights as citizens under US law. Maybe you're thinking of the NSA's mandate to only collect foreign-bound US internet traffic, not domestic?
All I'm saying, and I guess this doesn't contradict what you were saying, is that for the rest of the world it makes no difference if we choose American or Chinese equipment since we'll be spied on either way.
This is only scratching the surface. Don't forget their extensive tracking and imprisonment of ethnic minorities, political "dissents", etc. Seeing how they treat their own people, I can only imagine what kind of pressure they'll be able to exert on small(relative to China) countries that gave them control of their communications systems.
Eventually they’ll be able to analyze it with AI, and use it to advance their own agenda. Whether you consider that a good thing, or a less bad thing than whatever the NSA does, is in the eye of the beholder.
But make no mistake, the CCP does not ‘not care’ about your personal info.
UK security services inspected Huawei course, and found it messy, but otherwise unremarkable. This should be standard procedure and we should be good at it.