Nah, I think the latter would be great. Sure, short term it could cause issues, though not really for the average person. China will use it to influence politics for those people maybe, but they don’t have any large use for it. The US government has far more use for it in regard to them, so that’s actually a threat. It would be a risk for the government and western companies.

The benefit of this being lost to China is they’d have to fix what backdoors they can, and maybe reconsider creating new ones. This is a huge benefit to American consumers. It only hurts those who asked for the backdoors in the first place, which is presumably the US government.

I don’t live in China, so I’m not really worried about China’s government. I live in the US, so I’m worried about the US government.