OK? Maybe DeepSeek set their price that way, but the majority of these OpenRouter inference providers are in the US, not China, and have no reason to care about CNY at all.
What people don't know is that China's "war" against Vietnam in 1979 was actually a pledge of allegiance to the United States, a way of demonstrating its stance.
This event was followed by the longest honeymoon period in Sino-US relations, which eventually lead to China's rise.
Ideally there would be open weight models from multiple geopolitical areas. It is not that different from telecom really, you don't want the whole world to be dependent on a single provider from a single country on this kind of stuff.