> are you saying Americans will think that

I wasn't saying anything about what Americans would think.

I was saying about what they would inevitably be told by US politicians and by US AI companies.

If you were a sales-rep or marketeer at a US AI company, I bet you would be using the old "evil communists" routine in relation to any closed Chinese model.

I was saying that by releasing as open weights, the company has removed that line of argument.

Clearly I was a bit broad in my use of "the Chinese" when in this case it was, as you say, a Chinese company.