The courts here regularly shoot down government transgressions, and social media regularly gets it wrong (clicks are god, not facts). Also lets no pretend that it isn't in the agencies interest to perpetuate the idea that they are everywhere all the time watching everything.
Trump has been throwing a hissy fit over the court rulings. Xi doesn't ever do that because there are no courts that can rule against him.
It's only "the exact same thing" if you drink the kool aid all day.
He'll of course executively order those pesky things out of existence in time, or find other workarounds as he currently is.
Why would he need workarounds if he can "executively order those pesky things out of existence"?
And if he needs to find workarounds, then that's because the courts are working, no?
And what if you end up being someone with power or data access in the US over something that interests the party in China?
The Chinese are way ahead of you, so don't think it's a non-issue. The russians played the same game during the cold war. Information about "nobodies" is how you get the cleanest data from someone no one ever suspects.
Plus I think its funny you complain about China stealing things when all the big AI models are based on massive troves of stolen information and IP.