But that's not a very big thing right? I mean, they don't care what content you consume if you're not in China. (In fact, I'd wager there is a great strategic advantage in US and Chinese AI companies providing external variants that produce tons and tons of plausible sounding crap content. You could run disinformation campaigns. You could even have subtle, barely noticeable effects on education that serve to slow everyone outside your home nation down. You could influence politics. Etc etc!)

But probably in China DeepSeek would not produce the images? (I can't verify that since I'm not in China, but that'd be my guess.)