Now when we compare the investment that has gone into them we can understand that difference a lot more clearly. A $6 million investment in Chinese DeepSeek versus hundreds of millions of dollars put into American versions of the same thing apart from billions of dollars of funding they receive! For example in the lasted fundraising ChatGPT alone is trying to raise $40 billion!!!
If this is the size of this massive gap in every field, the Trump's Tariff war is not going to cut it! Even with 100% tariffs certain Chinese products may still remain cheaper to purchase than anything produced inside US. Same with other countries' products.
And that's without considering Chinese (and others) retaliating, otherwise if they show some more DeepSeek-style retaliation that wipes out trillions at a time, the US economy may not be able to handle it and the Ponzi scheme could fall apart sooner than expected.
DeepSeek has no doubt given a big blow to US economy and this is a proof that in today's world you can do much damage to opponent without even firing a single bullet. Just look at stock price of NVIDIA which claim to be "World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing". It's stock price has gone down from 148$ to 118$ in single day before recovering back to 129$. Defiantly other tech companies were also affected due to this new super cheap AI Bot. This cheap solution will also give confident to other countries with trained manpower but limited budget to develop quality tech products.

If this is the size of this massive gap in every field, the Trump's Tariff war is not going to cut it! Even with 100% tariffs certain Chinese products may still remain cheaper to purchase than anything produced inside US. Same with other countries' products.
And that's without considering Chinese (and others) retaliating, otherwise if they show some more DeepSeek-style retaliation that wipes out trillions at a time, the US economy may not be able to handle it and the Ponzi scheme could fall apart sooner than expected.
China is now a global supplier of products and it's now very difficult for any country to ban Chinese products because of there price. We saw USA recently banning Tik Tok app but new government has temporarily lifted the ban to resolve the issue of selling 50% stake to US companies. The world is taking China seriously and so is US government.