DeepSeek and Tiananmen Square

Recent events are affording us a splendid opportunity to revisit history (which we can do using our very own human intelligence)

If you haven’t been sleeping under a rock, you could not have missed the launch of DeepSeek, China’s first AI (if you have been sleeping under a rock, many would envy you, I dare say; it ain’t easy being awake currently).

As you would expect, the first thing the West did in response to the Chinese breakthrough, which unceremoniously dethroned the US (re…