TOPress Conference on March 3, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Justice of Singapore admitted that the Nvidia chips made by the United States had gone through their country before being sent to Malaysia, which was not necessarily his “final destination.” The elephant in the room was China, which, in 2024, Singapore as the second largest global market for Nvidia. According to the financial site of the Kobeissi Charter, Nvidia sales in Singapore have increased by 740% since the creation of Deepseek in July 2023.
On January 30, Washington launched an investigation to determine that China had illegally obtained Nvidia chips through external countries, thus avoiding the United States embargo. The myth of a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) aerodynamics, low cost, embodied by Deepseek, held by the western media and glorified by Beijing, could collapse as fast as it seemed.
To win the AI race, Beijing has deployed the same strategy that used to grow its national champions, such as Alibaba and Tencent, encouraging them to expand to the global market while excluding foreign competitors from China.
Western media hastened to accumulate praise in the “Chinese chatgpt”, citing figures provided by the company, a budget of $ 5.5 million (€ 5 million), which can verify them. The analysts praised the meteoric rise of this unexpected newcomer in the download classification, with a view to the fact that 1.4 billion Chinese citizens are prohibited to download any foreign alternative, including chatgpt, Llama, Gemini or the Mistral developed by the French.
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Ordinarily convicted as street vendors or anti-china falsehoods, Western media have suddenly found the favor in the eyes of the totalitarian regime, which now quotes them as reliable sources to crown Deepseek as a “revolutionary AI.” What is presented as a real technological war supplied a battle of narratives that Beijing won without firing.
And the moment of Deepseek debut was not an accident. It coincided with the lunar new year approach on January 29, which also marked the end of the Made in China 2025 Plan, a key initiative XI Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH). Although most of the objectives of the plan (robotics, electric vehicles and drones, have been with the AI sector, remains unquestionably dominated by the United States.
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