China had a plan to flood the world with cheap manufactured wares made from slave labor and by ripping off intellectual property. It was a cunning industrial plan. One that harmed American blue-collar workers and lulled the world into dependence on cheap Chinese products. Now, China is seeking to achieve a similar goal with artificial intelligence: Create a low-cost product by hook or by crook, then lull other countries, including the United States, into dependence.

President Donald Trump has pledged to stop this penetration, and yet, as we shall see, the U.S. is deep in China’s coils. It will take yet more reforms to fully assert American independence, let alone dominance. Just last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Politburo, “AI can become an international public good that benefits all humanity.” To anyone paying attention to actual Chinese policy and history, those phrases, “public good” and “benefits all humanity,” surely ring false.

But they ring “true” to DeepSeek, the hot new Chinese AI that has rapidly penetrated American life these past few months: It’s on smartphones, in

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