Deepseek vs Gemini – Ashley Dudarenok

 

Ashley Dudarenok

Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at her website ChoZan into the differences between the two leading AI companies, Deepseek and Gemini. In detail, she examines where both companies work best, as they differ profoundly.

Ashley Dudarenok:

At a surface level, both models aim to compete at the frontier of AI capability. The difference shows up in how they are built and where they are meant to win.

DeepSeek stems from a Chinese engineering mindset that prioritizes efficiency and scalability in deployment. Teams behind it have roots in quantitative finance and high-performance computing. That influence shows in how aggressively they optimize for cost and inference efficiency.

Gemini, developed by Google, prioritizes differently. It is designed as a deeply integrated intelligence layer across products like Google Search, Gmail, and Google Workspace. The goal is not just performance but ecosystem dominance.

This creates a practical divide. DeepSeek vs. Gemini is not a purely model-based comparison. It is a comparison between an efficiency-first challenger and an ecosystem-first incumbent. A similar divide appears in DeepSeek vs ChatGPT when deployment model and control are compared directly.

More at ChoZan.

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How Trump played poker in Beijing, where the game was Pokemon – Victor Shih

 

Victor Shih

Political analyst Victor Shih, director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy,  looks at the Trump state visit in Beijing. While Trump was losing his poker game, he should have been playing Pokémon, he explains in the Wire China.

Victor Shih:

It is not entirely wrong to think of Great Power politics as a card game, as Trump at times does. However, it is not a poker game, where hands are dealt randomly, and players both try to read the cards held by other players and, at times, bluff their way to victory.

The card game of geopolitics is in fact more akin to the Pokemon card game, where players still need to guess or collect intelligence on a competitor’s hand, but have much more discretion than in poker to expend resources and make tradeoffs in order to build the best position they can relative to their competitors.

The evidence on display in Beijing last week was that China has done this expertly — while the Trump administration still needs to realize that they are not even playing the right card game.

More at the Wire China.

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How China won the Trump visit in Beijing – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

Business analyst Shaun Rein looks back at the Trump visit in Beijing and explains why China has been the winner of this historic get-together, he tells George Galloway. He explains why China will never buy US technology anymore

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Trump has no credibility in Beijing – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein explains at CNBC why we cannot expect too much from the ongoing meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Trump has no credibility at all in Beijing, he says.

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US-China balance on the edge – Kaiser Kuo

 

Kaiser Kuo (right)

China veteran and Sinica podcast host Kaiser Kuo discusses at the Asia Society in Hong Kong the balance in the relationship between China and the US. Ying Chan interviews him.

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How can the Iran war impact China – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein looks at the impact the Iran war might have on China if the hostilities go on for two months or more. The fallout might last for years to come, not only for the US but also for China, he tells OAN.

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How a US financial crisis can make China the largest economy – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order,  dives into the upheaval in the Middle East and explains how a possible US financial crisis could make China the world’s largest economy, as he tells in a discussion with David Lin. Chinese feel Trump is the best thing that could happen to China, he adds.

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US-Iran war unlikely to derail Xi-Trump meeting – Arthur Kroeber

 

Arthur Kroeber

China protested against the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, but economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®  does not think this major upheaval will derail the planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, he says at CNBC.

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Why China is not focusing on the rich – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

Business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, discusses a fundamental difference in the politics of China and the USA concerning the rich. China focuses on the 90% of the population who are not rich, while the US goes for the rich, he says at the Thinkers Forum.

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The split between China and the US is irreversible – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

The split between China and the US is irreversible, argues Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, in a discussion with Keith Yap on his YouTube channel. Trade with China has helped the United States, he says.

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Are the China hawks retreating in the US? – Kaiser Kuo

 

China watcher Kaiser Kuo sees now the China hawks in the US are losing ground, after Trump realized China was not the pushover he hoped for, in a wide-ranging discussion at the Nonzero podcast with Robert Wright.

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AI growth now moves from brutal force to collaboration – Alvin Wang Graylin

 

Alvin Wang Graylin

For years, the growth of AI was built on scaling up its GPUs, but innovation expert Alvin Wang Graylin, author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, sees now a move to more collaboration. Chip maker Nvidia is not the only winner anymore, as competition is growing and AI models can develop through more experience and need less capacity to grow, as China’s Deepseek proved earlier this year, he says at the Big Bang Future Lab.

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Why nobody can win the AI race – Alvin Wang Graylin

 

Alvin Wang Graylin

Alvin Wang Graylin, author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, explains why there is no AI race any country can win. He discusses at the Thinkers Forum why the AI bubble everybody is talking about is not the right one.

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How the China debate developed in the West – Kaiser Kuo

 

Kaiser Kuo

China veteran Kaiser Kuo, host of The Sinica Podcast, looks back at how the debate on China has developed in the West over the past forty to fifty years, and here it ended now, in a debate with host Eric Olander of Conversation Changers. The discussion on what China wants says more about the West than about China, he argues.

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Why China has the upper hand in the trade war – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein explains why China has the upper hand in the current trade war with the US. For anything the US does not want to send to China, China has an alternative to hit back, he says at the Thinkers Forum.

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How the US quietly expanded its rules against China business – Arthur Kroeber

 

Arthur Kroeber

Technically, the trade talks between China and the US, and even meetings between Xi and Trump, are on the agenda, but the US has quietly curtailed US exports to China in September, says business analyst Arthur Kroeber in the South China Morning Post. The ramifications of the US rule change became vividly apparent on September 30, when the Dutch government seized control of the chip firm Nexperia.

South China Morning Post:

Until recently, US exporters had to obtain a government licence to do business with any of the entities included on the lists. But in late September, the bureau broadened its rules: exporters now face restrictions not only when dealing with entities on the lists, but also with any company at least 50 per cent owned by entities on the lists.

US officials “depict this as a technical move” that closes an obvious loophole, but in reality “its impact is far from technical”, said Arthur Kroeber, partner and head of research at research firm Gavekal, in a research note published last week.

In practice, the new rules effectively expand the number of sanctioned companies, “probably by thousands or tens of thousands”, Kroeber said. Many of the companies affected by the rule change are Chinese.

What’s more, the new rules create an onerous compliance burden for businesses, as the responsibility for figuring out whether a given company is majority-owned by entities on the blacklists lies with US exporters. That means businesses must now conduct forensic due diligence on the ownership structure of many customers, Kroeber said.

The ramifications of the US rule change became vividly apparent on September 30, when the Dutch government seized control of the chip firm Nexperia.

Nexperia is a local company that in 2019 became majority owned by Wingtech, a Chinese chip firm that was put on the US entity list in 2021.

As Nexperia would be vulnerable to US sanctions under the new rules, the Dutch government’s move to take over the company and oust its Chinese CEO was necessary to preserve the firm’s unfettered access to the US market, Kroeber said.

More at the South China Morning Post.

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China holds the upper hand in the US-China trade war – Shaun Rein

 

Shaun Rein

China is going to be the likely winner in the trade tensions the second-largest economy in the world has with the US, Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, explains at ScanX. “While the situation remains fluid, Rein’s analysis suggests that China may be better positioned to weather the current trade tensions.”

ScanX:

Shaun Rein, Managing Director of China Market Research Group, argues that China holds a stronger position in the current trade conflict with the US. He cites US vulnerability during the Christmas shopping season, potential pressure on Trump from his support base, and China’s reduced dependence on the US market. China has diversified its suppliers, limited US reliance to semiconductors and ethane, sold half its US dollar holdings, and is promoting RMB use in international trade. These moves are contributing to de-dollarization trends and impacting gold prices and cryptocurrency interest. Tensions have escalated with China threatening export controls on rare earth materials.

In the ongoing saga of US-China trade relations, a market research expert suggests that China may have the advantage. Shaun Rein, Managing Director of the China Market Research Group, presents a compelling case for China’s stronger position in the current trade standoff with the United States….

Rein criticizes the US for allegedly breaking earlier agreements reached between Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. In response, China has threatened to impose export controls on rare earth materials, further escalating tensions.

While the situation remains fluid, Rein’s analysis suggests that China may be better positioned to weather the current trade tensions. However, the long-term implications for both nations and the global economy remain to be seen. As always, investors and policymakers should closely monitor developments in this critical relationship.

More at ScanX.

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How to deal with the new chapter in the US-China trade war – Harry Broadman

 

Harry Broadman

U.S. President Trump has threatened a 100% tariff hike on Chinese goods, and Harry Broadman, former US Assistant Trade Representative and Chief of Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, tries to make sense out of both countries’ moves at Al Jazeera.

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