Of course it needs special scrutiny. What if in the midst of a break down in talks between the US and China, Chinese regulators come calling and say that either Apple provides the iCloud backup data of a staffer of an America senator or else they will be immediately banned from the Chinese market.
Maybe at that point Apple can stop spying on its users, that way as an EU citizen I get the US government to stop spying on me too (Apple was part of PRISM).
