People seem to conflate "made in China" with "can't be trusted." id argue the bigger distinction is open vs. closed. An open model can be audited, fine-tuned, and technically run entirely on your own hardware. A closed model is basically "trust us."
I think that perception of China has been shifting and will look quite different over the next few years
Open weight models are much more auditable than closed models, but could still hide backdoors that could be near impossible to detect.