This is based on my last check of alibaba and Deepseek TOS. If the Chinese will do anything to win, so will the Americans. I’m not American or Chinese and I have no reason to trust either side. I do think Chinese models are better price performance and actually open which is in many cases better.

it's very well known Deepseek does it, their whole discounted pricing was seemingly priced on that.

you can't even use Alibaba on Openrouter if you enforce ZDR

Why on gods green earth would they not if they can?