This is an oft-expressed refrain. But there are good reasons to not want to use Chinese models (or models from any adversary for that matter).

1. They may be trained, in theory, to inject subtle back-doors into certain kinds of generated code.

2. They may be also trained to include back-doors when deployed in public-facing services where user can provide text or image input.

3. Chained with (2) they may be also trained to exploit their inference environments, which though a big feat, not outside the capability of nation-state hackers.