China has arguably the best privacy laws. In China the state really will go the extra mile to protect the privacy of all government agencies that have access to your emails.

You must be referring to this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149. Well you might be able to block them with deep pigeon inspection. If not a man on the firewall with a shotgun ("Media Sentry") will do the job easily.

Well you have to admit Microsoft has done more for nuclear disarmament than anyone else...