[chenzhekl]

Their chips "Loongson" appeared long before RISC-V is a thing in 2002, when MIPS is still widely used in the embeddeed world. I guess they just do not want to drop the experience accumulated in developing their previous chips.

[rurban]

and avoid the US backdoors into their military computers of course.

[avianes]

RISC-V is an open and royalty free ISA, it can't really be backdoored. And several Chinese companies are working on RISC-V implementation