Yep. I'm not saying the US is the golden child here, not even close, but China is far from an innocent victim, period. China literally has actual concentration camps holding millions of people who have been imprisoned for disagreeing with the government... so... yeah...
Not only that, everyone pays other people to spy on their own people in situations they can't so they don't have to break any rules doing it themselves
That is a fact, but it is also no reason to make it easy.