China condemns United States for banning DeepSeek AI from government systems
The US government banned DeepSeek from all civilian federal IT systems in January 2025. The Department of Homeland Security ordered removal of DeepSeek products and cited data leakage risks. China criticized the move as politicized and accused the US of excluding Chinese tech under national security pretenses.
- The US Department of Homeland Security prohibited agencies from acquiring DeepSeek products.
- The Department of Security stated DeepSeek models have multiple threat vectors.
- The U.S. accused DeepSeek and five other Chinese AI companies of using large-scale model distillation to extract information from American AI systems.
- DeepSeek began offering an updated artificial intelligence model.
- The Federal Communications Commission will vote to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic devices in the US.
- China expressed its rejection of politicizing technological and economic-trade issues.
- China's commerce ministry expressed strong dissatisfaction with the US order.
- The South Korean government restricted DeepSeek use in February 2025.
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