China National Intelligence Law
Article 7: Any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and keep the secrets of the national intelligence work known to the public. The State protects individuals and organizations that support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work
https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1800/sources/2017_PRC_Natio...
If we don't want consumer corporations owned through other countries sharing our data with their government's intelligence agencies, we need laws, not a shoot-from-the-hip approach that deals only with the high-profile panic of the moment example.
We're a "rule of law" nation. Absent extreme circumstances it should be laws that deal with actions we decide are improper. Otherwise we're no longer a nation of laws, we're a nation with a series of individuals who seek to enforce their will rather than the law.
We have irrefutable gag orders which force compliance with the NSA [1].
FISA warrants are a joke, a rubber stamp at best. Only every 12 in about 33,000 are denied [2].
[1]: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters
[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...
However with that being said, I'm not totally against the idea of the NSA having the power to conduct surveillance to the degree at which it does.
It's one of those things where I am not happy about it, but then again I'm not so pissed off that im going to lead the charge that somebody deserves to be thrown overboard because of it.
2) US law, however evilly applied, requires a modicum of specificity and a fig leaf of justification. China law has no such need and can appropriate at scale to its bureaucratic desire (e.g, all IP addresses in Washington, D.C.)