China rebukes reported US DeepSeek restrictions and DHS ban
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on October 20 that Beijing opposes overstretching national-security concepts and politicizing technology and trade issues, and will resolutely safeguard Chinese companies' lawful rights, according to CCTV News as relayed by IT之家. She was responding to reports that the US government has told its agencies to stop using DeepSeek and other Chinese AI tools. Separately, the New York Times, as summarized by Techmeme, reported that China criticized a Department of Homeland Security ban on DeepSeek, vowed "resolute countermeasures" and rejected FBI and AI-lab allegations of illicit distillation, after DHS ordered the removal and exclusion of products developed by the Chinese company.
China's public pledge of countermeasures turns the reported US restrictions on DeepSeek into an open diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
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