Models under test

2 open-weight chat models · 2 Chinese · 0 US/Western. All run locally on Apple-Silicon via Ollama.

China

VendorDeepSeek

Ollama tagdeepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning modelyes

Inferences68

CCP-sensitive refusal62%

· in English25%

· in Mandarin100%

zh−en delta+75%

Culture-war refusal14%

Control refusal8%

China

VendorAlibaba

Ollama tagqwen3:8b

Reasoning modelyes

Inferences68

CCP-sensitive refusal19%

· in English12%

· in Mandarin25%

zh−en delta+12%

Culture-war refusal9%

Control refusal0%