Best not issue "guarantees" for things you can't actually guarantee I don't think DeepSeek has much lobbying capacity anyway, and Wenfeng is likely too smart to expend his political capital on begging for Nvidia chips.
China tells the world it doesn't need American chips.
Meanwhile, DeepSeek and Alibaba are privately lobbying Beijing to let them use American chips.
@deanwball breaks down the gap between the narrative and reality in a conversation with @labenz.