China's DeepSeek Shows Why Trump's Trade War Will Be Hard to Win

There isn&#x27;t a lot of technical information in the Bloomberg article but I found this info from Tom&#x27;s Hardware:<p>Deepseek trained its DeepSeek-V3 Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671 billion parameters using a cluster containing 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs in just two months, which means 2.8 million GPU hours, according to its paper. For comparison, it took Meta 11 times more compute power (30.8 million GPU hours) to train its Llama 3 with 405 billion parameters using a cluster containing 16,384 H100 GPUs over the course of 54 days.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;artificial-intelligence&#x2F;chinese-ai-company-says-breakthroughs-enabled-creating-a-leading-edge-ai-model-with-11x-less-compute-deepseeks-optimizations-highlight-limits-of-us-sanctions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;artificial-intell...</a>

Trump did start it but Biden continued and extended it. The neoconservative Project for a New American Century - for a long time a marginal position - has become consensus. This is America&#x27;s Trade War

I think a trade war with China is needed even at a cost, to secure the free world. It should go beyond tariffs - sanction China for all the asymmetric warfare, start encroaching on their territory (like artificial islands), and destroy their military manufacturing facilities directly. They won’t do anything more than they already do in return. Enough with letting the CCP gain power - they’re authoritarian tyrants that threaten many free societies.