Not entirely true. While Zoom as a company is not answerable to the Chinese government, the developers are.
Given that we have such horrible laws even in the "more democratic" parts of the world, such as Australia [1], it is not unthinkable that the Chinese government may ask a Chinese developer to install a backdoor to a foreign based product they are working on:
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said police could order individual IT developers to create technical functions without their company's knowledge.
except its not an office, its the majority of their dev team operating inside one of the top 3 unsafest, most anti-american (with respect to cybersecurity) countries in the world.
Given that we have such horrible laws even in the "more democratic" parts of the world, such as Australia [1], it is not unthinkable that the Chinese government may ask a Chinese developer to install a backdoor to a foreign based product they are working on:
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46463029
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said police could order individual IT developers to create technical functions without their company's knowledge.