Less than a month has passed since January 20th, and major shifts in American politics have already emerged. Regardless of the panic or surprise felt by various sectors of society in the US, people in Beijing are quietly observing and pondering how long this turmoil will last and to what extent it will alter American politics, global politics, and Sino-US relations.
What puzzles them most is that, while Trump appears to have extended an olive branch to China several times, the new US administration has sent contradictory, confrontational, and increasingly aggressive signals. Perhaps this is a key reason why Chinese leaders declined Trump's invitation to a summit call. They are still evaluating the US president and his policy leanings, and assessing the true significance of the US political storm.
In the month before and after President Trump took office, against the backdrop of obvious and huge uncertainties in Sino-US relations, some surprising developments occurred within both China and the United States, suggesting that while the confrontational relationship between China and the United States is developing, a certain convergence is emerging.
On the Chinese side, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, a Hangzhou company originally engaged in quantitative investment launched the Deep Seek model, which fully utilized the data of OpenAI in the United States and some open source information from around the world in various ways. Because of its breakthrough reasoning ability, it is equivalent to greatly improving the IQ of the AI model. In a short period of time, it attracted a large number of users and won worldwide acclaim.
