There is something poetically ironic about the news this weekend, that DeepSeek and Huawei have teamed up as China’s newest and oldest U.S. tech adversaries target home advantage. The most recent Chinese security threat to trigger much handwringing in Washington, with the OG that kicked off the whole U.S. versus China tech war in the first place.

Interestingly, that’s exactly how the South China Morning Post framed this latest news: “Tech war: Huawei cloud unit powers DeepSeek models in China’s bid for AI autonomy.” If you’re in America, this will not directly impact you. This is more about what happens in China. But as ever with the Chinese tech industry, it’s very interlaced and all these collaborations foster competitive advantage on foreign soil.