Really, these are rookie mistakes. You set an internal policy for short retention times and delete everything with few exceptions. Then if anyone asks why something was deleted, the answer is simply "it's policy."

Every country on earth needs to tell the US to fuck right off with their IP laws, even so much as publicly advertising full free downloads of all US media content. Maybe some real public deals with china to get them to release all manufacturing documents coming from US businesses cover all physical manufacturing, as well as all firmware and any source code they happen to be in possession with. Maybe even just a bit of public dealing hinting to this would be enough for them to consider doing something about the ai companies right?