I always think code review can't be done perfectly, because the standard of good code can never reach to a common consent, every programmer has their own styles, puts all together, it mostly become garbage.
Is Julian Assange safe in Austrilia, is Edward Snowden safe in the US? Why would they flee to other countries? Those Chinese criminals thought the same way, they flee to the US.
China and surveillance, these two words form a piece of a news, if you change it to other countries, then it's not news. Western media is very objective.