You don’t want to ride in either the Chinese or US Data regimes. Both, phone home to their respective intelligence systems. Both are coded with the regime propaganda.
As someone who flies, a lot, like 100/yr, I feel fairly confident about my opinions. Noise cancelling headphones rock (ear buds less so). And when there’s a baby crying make funny faces, offer to hold and walk it, and tell the parents that “we were all babies once, and many of are also parents.