> none of the people listed on the DeepSeek papers got educated at US universities "You have been educated at foreign universities / worked at foreign companie

> none of the people listed on the DeepSeek papers got educated at US universities "You have been educated at foreign universities / worked at foreign companies" is indeed an excuse they have used at least once to refuse a candidate. n=1 though so maybe that's just a convenient excuse. There's one guy who went to University of Adelaide (IIRC) on the paper.