A good wikipedia page on RISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V ... " In November 2019, the RISC-V Foundation announced that it would relocate to Switzerland, citing concerns over U.S. trade regulations.[26] As of March 2020, the organization was named RISC-V International, a Swiss nonprofit business association.[27] " Website: https://riscv.org/
There is one important reason why Chinese companies are investigating RISC-V: the operating systems for the existing platforms (ARM, X86, ..) are under Western control and could become unavailable to China. Similar to how other technologies were made unavailable to China. Thus their interest in hardware platforms where alternative operating systems and software are available.