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Healthy democracies do not rely on student-led protests to overthrow the government. Someone was behind it and they got what they paid for.

Ukraine does not use Starshield, only Starlink. Take this article with a grain of salt.

The rumor [0][1] is that both Ukraine and Russia install GPS spoofers as a workaround for geofencing. Another rumor is that Starlink recently updated their software to detect and block such attempts that is based on rapid satellite switch detection by the Starlink terminal that happened if the terminal was moving faster than 160km/h.

> Although you can often take losses from a previous year to offset current income

This is true, usually for 5 years.

> So if you do a huge amount of capital investment you can offset against profits for years.

Articles 11, 12, 18, and 28 [0] say that capital investment can reduce tax based on the depreciation or amortization cost, not by carrying forward the investment as a loss.

Nothing in the Chinese tax law says that DeepSeek can receive tax returns or free handouts from the government because they do R&D.

* Original funding was private. DeepSeek announced fundraising in May 2026 [0]. Chinese AI investment fund was created 17 months prior [1]. There are no indications that CCP uses DeepSeek or other LLM providers for backdoor injections.

* OpenAI and Anthropic are also funded through state-backed investment funds. And might be funded by the government itself [2].

* OpenAI and Anthropic APIs are blocked in China also. Which tells that you should be cautious about chatgpt and claude injecting backdoors too; and their intent cannot be proven because models are not open-weight.