You can make the other argument that China subsidizes the price and that they can't be profitable at this pricing level. From an industrial strategy standpoint, they already do this for many other industries with huge subsidized state loans.
So we can go round and round on this, each with our made-up objections about how it's temporary or unrealistic or impossible or whatever, or we can just accept the prices as listed and use that to guide our economic decisions.
Private companies cannot play that game too long. Profit from current state of AI is a mirage and sooner or later stuff will hit the fan.
Didn't OpenCode CTO state they could replicate deepseek pricing on rented hardware?