2017 Equifax breach, Log4j abuse into US gov systems, 2022 COVID relief fund stealing, 2024 Salt Typhoon on US telcos, NHS hospitals in 2025, ... You could list those forever. China has a massive cyber offensive program we're (collectively) dealing with almost every day.

Ok, great who cares. I will use the best model regardless of cost or who "owns" it.

There is no point on using anything lesser and Mistral is a waste of time.

well, they prefer to just announce their border expanded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Lithuania_relati... would be another case

> On 3 December 2021, Lithuania reported that in an escalation of the diplomatic spat over relations with Taiwan, China had stopped all imports from the Baltic state. It said Beijing has delisted Lithuania as a country of origin, preventing items from clearing customs, and was rejecting all import applications.[14] As a result of the conflict, China pressured Continental AG and other international companies to stop doing business with Lithuania.[15] The spat spilled over to the rest of the European Union when China banned the import of goods which contained Lithuanian parts