If US is going to proceed with trade war on EU, as it was planning anyway, then DeepSeek will be banned only in US. Seems like term "western countries" is slowly eroding.
Many countries in Latin America have better relations and more robust trade partnerships with China.
As for the EU, I think it will be great for it to shed its reliance on the US, and act more independently from it.
Trump has already managed to completely destroy the US reputation within basically the entire continent¹. And he seems intent on creating a commercial war against all the countries here too.
1 - Do not capture and torture random people on the street if you want to maintain some goodwill. Even if you have reasons to capture them.
It’s not limited to the models themselves but also OpenAI will probably work towards shutting down access to training data sets also.
imho it’s probably an emergency all hand on deck problem.
Who cares if some people think you look foolish when you have a locked down 500 billion dollar investment guarantee?