> Right now DeepSeek models hosted in china are having very high latency.

If you are talking about DeepSeek's own hosted API service. It's because they deliberately decided to run the service in heavily overloaded conditions and have very aggressive batching policy to extract more out of their (limited) H800s.

Yes, for some reason (the reason I heard is "our boss don't want to run such a business" which sounds absurd but /shrug) they refuse to scale up serving their own models.