I'm not arguing about a comparison here. I'm trying to correct a misconception about China that I see a lot from Western perspectives.

Everything a Chinese company does has the explicit backing of the CCP, at least ideologically and usually financially in some fashion. While DeepSeek may not be the CCP, it couldn't exist if it was expressing any kind of ideology that wasn't inline with them and, in this case, is explicitly funded by them.

A Chinese company has no freedom to say Taiwan is a country the way someone in the US could suggest California succeed from the nation.

Any public message you hear coming out of China has the implicit approval of the Chinese government.