I doubt it, China would only be happy if they could vet & build the source code themselves. MS wouldn't be too clever to give them that.

If this is really about security and not to pull off exactly that above.

Rumors say, that happened with Russia with Windows 7 (and I've heard similar stories about Windows 98, 2000 and XP). Why not China?

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-...

In my completely uneducated opinion based on heresy China seems to care a great deal less about intellectual property, patents and licencing right of companies that aren't Chinese.

Given its regular practice of trying to get companies to manufacture goods in Chine to steal their process' and technology.

This is also the exact reason SpaceX don't file patents and do not use anything from Microsoft.

You see, Russia isn't that caring about copyrights, too. There were relatively recent (this happened after Windows XP release) industry lobbying that led to massive rewrite of copyright laws, but illegal copying is still nearly ubiquitous.

MS gives you sources to audit if you pay enough, and the builds may be deterministic.

Shared Source initiative. Many organizations already have this.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/government-secu...

Given the recent issues between the two governments on cybernetic issues, I guess its sensible for MS to discuss it first home and then react. That would slow the reaction a bit.

What cybernetic issues? Du you even know what cybernetics means?

sorry, cybernetic spying issues, I meant