Sure, but that's orthogonal to geopolitics and intelligence.

US policy makers are actively attacking RISC-V and dissuading its use.

China has an increasingly large upper hand in the RISC-V ecosystem and can use that to remove Western surveillance and replace it with their own.

https://itif.org/publications/2024/07/19/the-us-china-tech-c...

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2023/regarding-proposed-u...