For the Record: Linux is Controlled by the United States of America
Also see: Linux Fork or Community Fork of Linux in Russia
The Linux Foundation excludes any country that the US government excludes, so it's not an international project.
As someone else put it: "That is hardly the point. This is going to make many question the openness and inclusivity of the work done by Linux Foundation. I just went over the email chain mail at lore.kernel.org that was written by Serge Semin, and it is not pretty reading. Including the responses. Where technical discussions should be happening and take primacy, political and legal discussions are being done. Serge Semin claimed that he was contributing to Linux Kernel on his own. Not because of his employer. Now people are going to wonder on how much should Linux be used if it is going to be subject American laws. Not a good read at all."
Linux Foundation chiefs are moving away from "Open Source".