This is really not all that uncommon. Microsoft gives regular access to its Windows source code for auditing to Russia, China and other countries.
Combine this with recent activity on the US's behalf to backdoor services in China, for example giving US Federal agents access to the GMail accounts of Chinese nationals. Projects like this in the United States are not atypical. You'll remember that the surveillance programs selectively revealed by journalists with access to the Snowden documents that they are administered by the 'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts' - and that the United States participation in the Five Eyes partnership with the core of UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand (now expanded to include others) is a charter to intercept global intelligence and communications - that Germany's BND, an ally of the US's NSA, had called for the boycott of the more recent Windows Operating Systems as its implementation and support for TPM attestation amounted to the US backdoor. We've also learned that the United States CIA created a Twitter-like service under a front corporation, deployed it in Cuba, and used it to attempt to foment a revolution (in 2014). The United States Department of Defense has studied how to propagandize entire countries, in fact entire regions of the world, over Twitter and social media. It's Justice Department funded studies on how to tweak search results and social media banners to influence election outcomes. (Such meddling has been caught in Indian search engines, but attribution is not currently known.)
No one should be surprised after the wealth of information disclosed through the Snowden documents and the constellation of other facts that China has a legitimate worry that software sold to their banks may contain surveillance or covert access capabilities. One might even speculate that these policies are a product of Chinese Intelligence which suggests that Western allies either have plans to do or have in the past done exactly that.
Combine this with recent activity on the US's behalf to backdoor services in China, for example giving US Federal agents access to the GMail accounts of Chinese nationals. Projects like this in the United States are not atypical. You'll remember that the surveillance programs selectively revealed by journalists with access to the Snowden documents that they are administered by the 'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts' - and that the United States participation in the Five Eyes partnership with the core of UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand (now expanded to include others) is a charter to intercept global intelligence and communications - that Germany's BND, an ally of the US's NSA, had called for the boycott of the more recent Windows Operating Systems as its implementation and support for TPM attestation amounted to the US backdoor. We've also learned that the United States CIA created a Twitter-like service under a front corporation, deployed it in Cuba, and used it to attempt to foment a revolution (in 2014). The United States Department of Defense has studied how to propagandize entire countries, in fact entire regions of the world, over Twitter and social media. It's Justice Department funded studies on how to tweak search results and social media banners to influence election outcomes. (Such meddling has been caught in Indian search engines, but attribution is not currently known.)
No one should be surprised after the wealth of information disclosed through the Snowden documents and the constellation of other facts that China has a legitimate worry that software sold to their banks may contain surveillance or covert access capabilities. One might even speculate that these policies are a product of Chinese Intelligence which suggests that Western allies either have plans to do or have in the past done exactly that.