Douglas Fuller is an associate professor of international economics, government and business at Copenhagen Business School and the author of "Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development."
Since its release last month, DeepSeek's open-source generative artificial intelligence model, R1, has been heralded as a breakthrough innovation that demonstrates China has taken the lead in the artificial intelligence race. Cue the hand-wringing in Washington D.C. and triumphalism in Beijing declaring that hardware export controls on chips enabling AI compute have been successfully circumvented through clever coding.
