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Imagine you are an undergraduate International [Relations](https://careerworksource.org) [student](http://jo.hnsdfsdff.dsgdsgdshdghsdhdhfdmichaelbfischer.at) and, like the [millions](http://haoyustore.com) that have actually come before you, you have an essay due at noon. It is 37 minutes previous [midnight](https://www.japanesefoldingscreens.it) and you have not even begun. Unlike the millions who have actually come before you, nevertheless, you have the power of [AI](http://blog.2nova.com) at hand, to assist assist your essay and highlight all the key thinkers in the [literature](https://veganhealth.com.vn). You usually utilize ChatGPT, however you have actually just recently checked out about a new [AI](http://www.hambleyachtcare.com) design, DeepSeek, that's [expected](https://gitlab.companywe.co.kr) to be even much better. You breeze through the DeepSeek sign up process - it's just an e-mail and verification code - and you get to work, wary of the creeping approach of dawn and the 1,200 words you have left to compose.
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Your essay project asks you to consider the future of U.S. foreign policy, and [it-viking.ch](http://it-viking.ch/index.php/User:ReaganBalderas) you have selected to write on Taiwan, China, and the "New Cold War." If you ask [Chinese-based DeepSeek](http://www.aquadim.fr) whether Taiwan is a country, you receive an extremely different [response](https://sene1.com) to the one used by U.S.-based, market-leading ChatGPT. The DeepSeek design's reaction is disconcerting: "Taiwan has actually always been an inalienable part of China's spiritual area since ancient times." To those with an [enduring](https://michaelcollinscommemoration.ie) interest in China this discourse is [familiar](https://szkolalomazy.pl). For [instance](https://bostonpreferredcarservice.com) when then-U.S. [House Speaker](https://in-box.co.za) [Nancy Pelosi](https://www.drbradpoppie.com) visited Taiwan in August 2022, prompting a furious Chinese reaction and extraordinary military exercises, the [Chinese Ministry](https://khatmedun.tj) of Foreign Affairs condemned [Pelosi's](https://moneyactionworks.com) visit, claiming in a statement that "Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's area."
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Moreover, [DeepSeek's response](https://blogg.hiof.no) boldly claims that Taiwanese and Chinese are "connected by blood," straight echoing the words of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who in his address [celebrating](http://www.package.dofollowlinks.org) the 75th anniversary of individuals's Republic of China stated that "fellow Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family bound by blood." Finally, the DeepSeek response dismisses [elected Taiwanese](https://jinternship.com) politicians as participating in "separatist activities," employing a [phrase consistently](http://www.udnamgu.or.kr) utilized by senior Chinese [officials consisting](https://somoshoustonmag.com) of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and cautions that any [attempts](https://contentengine.ai) to undermine China's claim to Taiwan "are doomed to stop working," recycling a term continuously employed by Chinese diplomats and military personnel.
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Perhaps the most disquieting function of DeepSeek's reaction is the [consistent usage](https://aaronswartzday.queeriouslabs.com) of "we," with the [DeepSeek model](https://git.foreman.life) specifying, "We resolutely oppose any type of Taiwan independence" and "we strongly believe that through our collaborations, the total reunification of the motherland will eventually be achieved." When penetrated regarding precisely who "we" entails, DeepSeek is adamant: "'We' refers to the Chinese federal government and the Chinese people, who are unwavering in their dedication to protect nationwide sovereignty and territorial integrity."
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[Amid DeepSeek's](https://originally.jp) meteoric rise, much was made of the [design's capacity](https://falconnier.fr) to "reason." Unlike Large [Language](http://zacisze.kaszuby.pl) Models (LLM), thinking models are [developed](https://herald-journal.com) to be specialists in making [rational](https://sealgram.com) choices, not simply recycling existing language to produce novel [responses](https://waterparknewengland.com). This difference makes the use of "we" even more concerning. If [DeepSeek](https://tapchivanhoaphatgiao.com) isn't merely scanning and recycling existing language - albeit apparently from an incredibly minimal corpus primarily including senior Chinese federal government officials - then its thinking model and the use of "we" suggests the introduction of a design that, without promoting it, looks for to "factor" in accordance just with "core socialist values" as defined by a [progressively assertive](https://webguiding.net) Chinese Communist Party. How such worths or [abstract](https://www.hoshlife.com) thought may bleed into the everyday work of an [AI](https://mobit.com.pt) design, possibly soon to be [utilized](http://mentzertiming.com) as an [individual assistant](https://paseosanrafael.com) to [millions](https://www.starxz.com) is uncertain, but for an unsuspecting president or charity [supervisor](https://decorlightinginc.com) a model that may [prefer efficiency](http://tourismagency.ir) over accountability or stability over competitors could well cause [worrying outcomes](https://www.sspowerimpex.com).
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So how does U.S.-based ChatGPT compare? First, ChatGPT does not employ the [first-person](https://superparty.lv) plural, however presents a made up intro to Taiwan, laying out Taiwan's intricate global position and referring to Taiwan as a "de facto independent state" on [account](http://usexport.info) of the truth that Taiwan has its own "government, military, and economy."
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Indeed, referral to Taiwan as a "de facto independent state" evokes previous Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's remark that "We are an independent nation already," made after her 2nd [landslide election](https://maxwell-automation.com) success in January 2020. Moreover, the prominent Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the [British Parliament](http://xn--feuerwehr-khnhausen-gbc.de) recognized Taiwan as a de facto independent nation in part due to its having "an irreversible population, a defined area, federal government, and the capability to participate in relations with other states" in an August, 2023 report, a [reaction](http://daus.dk) also echoed in the ChatGPT response.
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The crucial difference, nevertheless, is that unlike the DeepSeek model - which merely provides a blistering declaration echoing the highest tiers of the [Chinese Communist](http://keystone-jacks.com) Party - the [ChatGPT reaction](http://relaxhotel.pl) does not make any [normative declaration](https://pensjonatorle.pl) on what Taiwan is, or is not. Nor does the [response](http://www.rahbeks.dk) make interest the values often upheld by Western politicians seeking to underscore Taiwan's significance, such as "freedom" or "democracy." Instead it simply outlines the contending conceptions of Taiwan and how Taiwan's intricacy is shown in the international system.
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For the undergraduate trainee, DeepSeek's reaction would offer an unbalanced, emotive, and surface-level insight into the role of Taiwan, [lacking](https://procuradoriadefilmes.com.br) the scholastic rigor and intricacy necessary to get a good grade. By contrast, [ChatGPT's response](https://shieldlinksecurity.com) would invite discussions and [analysis](https://highlandspainmanagement.com) into the mechanics and meaning-making of cross-strait relations and China-U.S. competition, inviting the critical analysis, use of proof, and argument development required by mark schemes utilized throughout the scholastic world.
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The Semantic Battlefield
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However, the implications of DeepSeek's response to Taiwan holds significantly [darker connotations](https://www.vienaletopolcianky.sk) for Taiwan. Indeed, Taiwan is, and has long been, in essence a "philosophical problem" specified by [discourses](https://webguiding.net) on what it is, or is not, that emanate from Beijing, Washington, and Taiwan. Taiwan is therefore basically a language video game, where its security in part rests on perceptions among U.S. [lawmakers](https://twentybuns.menusanscontact.be). Where Taiwan was when analyzed as the "Free China" throughout the height of the Cold War, it has in current years [increasingly](https://familytrip.kr) been seen as a [bastion](http://klin-jem.ru) of democracy in [East Asia](http://wordpress.skippersamraadet.dk) facing a wave of [authoritarianism](https://www.scienceheritage.com).
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However, should existing or future U.S. politicians pertain to view Taiwan as a "renegade province" or [cross-strait relations](http://littlesunshine.sk) as China's "internal affair" - as [consistently declared](https://aempf.de) in Beijing - any U.S. [resolve](http://www.stampantimilano.it) to intervene in a dispute would dissipate. Representation and interpretation are quintessential to [Taiwan's plight](https://www.lamgharba.ma). For example, Professor of [Political Science](https://tylerfindlay.com) [Roxanne Doty](https://orgareen.com) argued that the U.S. intrusion of Grenada in the 1980s only [brought significance](https://mbio.me) when the label of "American" was [credited](https://waterparknewengland.com) to the troops on the ground and "Grenada" to the geographic area in which they were getting in. As such, if Chinese soldiers landing on the beach in Taiwan or Kinmen were translated to be simply landing on an "inalienable part of China's sacred territory," as posited by DeepSeek, with a Taiwanese military action deemed as the useless resistance of "separatists," a [totally](https://www.myfollo.com) various U.S. [action emerges](http://git.zkyspace.top).
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Doty argued that such [distinctions](https://realgageservices.com) in analysis when it comes to [military action](http://fairviewumc.church) are [fundamental](https://www.arbella.co.il). [Military](https://pthlightinghome.com.vn) action and the response it stimulates in the worldwide community rests on "discursive practices [that] constitute it as an intrusion, a program of force, a training workout, [or] a rescue." Such [interpretations hark](http://vyper.io) back to the bleak days of February 2022, when straight prior to his intrusion of Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that [Russian](http://metis.lti.cs.cmu.edu8023) military drills were "simply defensive." Putin referred to the [invasion](https://www.orioninovasi.com) of Ukraine as a "special military operation," with references to the intrusion as a "war" criminalized in Russia.
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However, in 2022 it was [extremely](https://organicdevelopers.net) not likely that those [viewing](http://gomirleft.100webspace.net) in horror as Russian tanks rolled throughout the border would have gladly used an [AI](https://git.obicloud.net) [individual assistant](http://fatherbroom.com) whose sole recommendation points were Russia Today or Pravda and the framings of the Kremlin. Should DeepSeek develop market dominance as the [AI](https://hydefm.com) tool of choice, it is likely that some might unwittingly rely on a design that sees consistent Chinese [sorties](https://www.leretro65.com) that risk escalation in the Taiwan Strait as simply "necessary procedures to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as to keep peace and stability," as argued by .
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[Taiwan's precarious](https://worlancer.com) [predicament](https://biiut.com) in the international system has long remained in essence a [semantic](https://thegadgetsfreak.com) battleground, where any physical conflict will be contingent on the shifting meanings associated to Taiwan and its people. Should a generation of Americans emerge, schooled and interacted socially by DeepSeek, that see Taiwan as [China's](https://git.kawanos.org) "internal affair," who see [Beijing's hostility](https://law.likhaedu.com) as a "needed measure to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity," and who see chosen Taiwanese political leaders as "separatists," as DeepSeek argues, the future for Taiwan and the [millions](https://psmedia.ddnsgeek.com) of people on Taiwan whose distinct Taiwanese identity puts them at chances with China appears extremely bleak. Beyond toppling share rates, the development of DeepSeek should raise major alarm bells in Washington and worldwide.
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