Google's Transparency Report shows a list of which top sites do modern HTTPS by default, which do it but only if you explicitly request the HTTPS site, and which have crappy (e.g. TLS 1.0 only, or they require 3DES) cryptography, and which have nothing at all.
The last category features many Chinese sites. I could speculate about why that is, maybe the Great Firewall gives citizens no reason to bother trying to achieve security, maybe Chinese culture opposes privacy, maybe everybody in China is running Windows 95 still. But whatever the reason, that's an observable fact.
There's also a whole bunch of crappy British tabloid newspapers there. Given their print editions are specifically printed on the worst quality paper that will take print ink, and they are routinely accused of "gutter" journalism, perhaps it isn't a surprise that defending their reputations through the use of encryption isn't a priority? Or you know, maybe British culture... British great firewall... etcetera. No idea.
https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/top-sites
The last category features many Chinese sites. I could speculate about why that is, maybe the Great Firewall gives citizens no reason to bother trying to achieve security, maybe Chinese culture opposes privacy, maybe everybody in China is running Windows 95 still. But whatever the reason, that's an observable fact.
There's also a whole bunch of crappy British tabloid newspapers there. Given their print editions are specifically printed on the worst quality paper that will take print ink, and they are routinely accused of "gutter" journalism, perhaps it isn't a surprise that defending their reputations through the use of encryption isn't a priority? Or you know, maybe British culture... British great firewall... etcetera. No idea.