The debut of Chinese tech firm DeepSeek’s cutting-edge AI models has reignited a critical debate over the effectiveness of U.S. export controls as a strategy to curb China’s technological ambitions. Officially, these measures were designed to deny Beijing access to the hardware that fuels advancements in artificial intelligence, with the dual aim of safeguarding U.S. national security and maintaining technological supremacy. However, the emergence of the recently launched DeepSeek-R1 and the
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