This article makes a handful of good points, as I do think university research should be shielded from government influence and politics, but most of this article speaks like a pro-China propaganda piece.

The issue is that the CCP has outsize influence on that country's companies than a typical government, even if they aren't state-owned, and the state has been known to put pressure on US and Canadian politics through those kinds of apps and technologies.

So yes, the US government, the Canadian government, Big Tech like Google, Apple, Amazon spy on us already and siphon plenty of data, but that shouldn't be a reason we allow any and all countries equal access to our private data.