I guess if the US started a "Made in US 2025" initiative a decade ago with the purpose of producing a 100%-made US car there would be some similarity, but they didn't. The US isn't trying to enter one of the most technically difficult markets around and then claiming they've produced a "homegrown" product when all they produced was the highly untechnical fuselage element. You're talking apples to dragon fruit.

More importantly, perhaps it's best to take Chinese company PR releases with a grain of salt. Why don't you answer the important question - how do they keep up without that new Nvidia chip when they fail time and time again on chip development? Check out the story of Tsinghua Unigroup's failure to see just how difficult it is for China to develop cutting-edge chips. Also, why is ChatGPT coming up in DeepSeek's answers? How can innovation flourish when you've got CCP minders looking over your shoulder all the time, especially with tech like this, which deals with data the CCP wants censored? Tiananmen Square anyone?