Reminder DeepSeek is a Chinese company whose headstart is attributed to stealing IP from American companies. Without the huge theft, they'd be nowhere.
Ethics of Chinese vs. Western companies? Everything. I'm sure you're aware of how many hundreds of $billions of American IP are stolen by Chinese companies.
With completed legal proceedings, at least two cases: Xiaolang Zhang was sentenced in 2024 for stealing Apple's AI autonomous vehicle tech for Chinese AI company XPeng. Xiang Haitao was sentenced in 2022 for stealing Monsanto's AI predictive algorithm for a Chinese research institute.