I want to say that I have all the respect and admiration for these Chinese people, their ingenuity and their way of doing innovation even if they achieve this through technological theft and circumventing embargoes imposed by US (we all know how GPUs find their way into their hands).
We are living a time with a multi-faceted war between the US, China, EU, Russia and others. One of the battlegrounds is AI supremacy. This war (as any war) isn’t about ethics; it’s about survival, and anything goes.
Finally, as someone from Europe, I confess that here is well known that the "US innovates while EU regulates" and that's a shame IMO. I have the impression that EU is doing everything possible to keep us, European citizens, behind, just mere spectators in this tech war. We are already irrelevant, niche players.