> Everything a Chinese company does has the explicit backing of the CCP, at least ideologically and usually financially in some fashion.

If you're not arguing about comparison then don't state this as if it's any different from the US. Because you make it sound that way. Or do you think that if tomorrow OpenAI came out vocally supporting the DSA - that suddenly they wouldn't see lots of barriers rise up out of nowhere?

Come on now. That's fairy tale land.