Deepseek was seen on the phone in front of the Chinese flag.
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About China's economic hardware/software debate has become more complicated.
Before Deepseek flipped the script in artificial intelligence games, many economists worried that there were too many former Chinese, and the latter was not enough.
Over the years, developers have been unable to encounter left China in property and local government finances, build a low -altitude skyscraper, six -lane highway, white elephant stadium and apartment building. However, economic software (innovation of major destruction) often lags behind the prosperity of infrastructure in the United States.
Enter the Deepseek to turn the traditional wisdom to its mind. The cost of AI models with cost -effective AI models shocked the technology community with less advanced chips. Wild investment in NVIDIA's stocks (its market value has dropped by nearly 600 billion US dollars) proves how investors now question US technical advantages.
This idea in Silicon Valley is the next potential large -scale leap: Chinese companies produce their own opportunities to change the rules of the game. Joe Biden (Joe Biden) tried to prevent Chinese ambitions in semiconductor and artificial intelligence in 2021-2025. This is China, letting the world know that it appears more than most people think.
Deepseek may be a complete distortion. However, considering how much time it took, the time of Money and political capital leader Xi Jinping seemed to be a one -time, which seemed very low. In addition to AI and chips, priority includes electric vehicles, renewable energy, robotics, biotechnology, aviation, high -speed guide rails and high -quality infrastructure.
The success of China in electric vehicles has led Japanese idol Honda and Nissan cars to unite in rare ways. Last year, Elon Musk called on Washington to take action against China Electric Motor Corporation. This is a response to Warren Buffett-Back Byd, and the Warren Buffett-Back Byd makes cheap electric vehicles (EV) cheaper.
“Frankly said,” Musk said in January 2024: “I think that without establishing a trade barrier, they will almost demolish most other companies in the world.”
Since then, Musk tried to go back to that request. However, like Trump, this person will change his mind from time to time, so who really knows?
However, for the success of all China's infrastructure, some of their hardware need some serious work: the economy it depends.
Xi Jinping's “Made in China” project is gaining some attractiveness and has obtained big headline news for this. This is really good. However, China entered 2025 with a very serious situation, especially the huge property, and believes that this has devastating confidence in Asia's largest economy.
Since the Asian crisis in 1997, China is suffering the longest crawling conditions. This exacerbates China's consumption problem. It also collided with debt burdens faced by governments across the country. Many of the trillions of dollars, many of which are the types of imbalance tables. It limits the ability of municipal authorities to develop local industrial and investment human capital to cultivate the next wave of startups similar to DeepSeek.
At the same time, at the moment when the population was aging, the unemployment rate in China was close to the climax of record. Such a scheme is essentially deformed. People in their 20s often spend more actively than people in their 70s. When people in their twenties can find stable employment.
Prices are becoming a global headline news. To make matters worse, maybe, they made economists bullish and succumbed to Japan for ten years. If China is “irreparable”, they are still arguing on Wall Street.
Many of these problems are caused by themselves. Xi Jinping's response to Chinese property has shrouded and deepened the crisis. Tokyo ’s many years FUNK is the result of the slow policy of ending the bad loan crisis in the 1990s.
Now, the same mistake is to limit the combat shrinking of the People's Bank of China.
If PBOC reduces interest rates significantly, Yuan may decrease sharply. This will make it more difficult for giant real estate developers to keep up with offshore debt, thereby increasing the risk of breach of contract. It may also destroy confidence in currency.
More confident PBOC can reduce many years of work to reduce financial leverage. Donald Trump was angry, and it actually ensured that the US president was advancing in his huge trade war.
Will DeepSeek Shock increase Trump's determination to curb China? On the one hand, Trump was unhappy with China just stealing the AI thunder of his White House.
When Trump's SAM Altman in OpenAI, Softbank's Masayoshi son, and Larry Ellison of Oracle seemed to be a lifetime before the White House. That was January 21. Deepseek has made the $ 500 billion AI infrastructure project looks like an old hat.
Try to predict what the Trump world may do. However, it is believed that China ’s toasting the artificial intelligence universe may make Trump more difficult to fight Xi Jinping's economy. Strangely, Trump didn't like hearing the fusion of the technology brothers in his White House, saying that Deepseek was “explosive moment”.
I didn't want to know whether Tesla's huge income errors in the fourth quarter may cause Musk to lobby Trump to collect Chinese electric vehicles, and soon.
In fact, China's economy is not the best place for Trump to threaten 60 % of tariffs. UBS economists believe that this scale taxation will reduce China's annual growth rate by more than half, thereby reducing 2.5 percentage points from GDP.
In this risk, it is now that XI has ended the property crisis, strengthened the capital market, reduced the dominant position of state -owned enterprises, and inspired families to reduce and spend more time.
China ’s very important news in the AI competition shows that Xi Jinping succeeded in the market. However, if there is no bold action to establish a more dynamic and productive economic system, China will not go far.
