At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, apart from the obvious stuff like the ethnic cleansing of hte UIghers - there are concentration camps right now, on this planet, and your phone (and mine)was made in the same country - the thing is that Australia's our ally and China is a hostile foreign superpower.
Is it really that big a stretch to find spying by the one to be a bad thing, and the other to be a good thing?