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How Chinese Users Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions to Access Claude AI
Chinese users are circumventing Anthropic's geolocation restrictions to access Claude AI through VPNs, foreign accounts, and a growing network of 'transfer stations' that resell API tokens. Despite aggressive countermeasures by Anthropic, many Chinese developers prefer Claude over domestic models due to a perceived 6-9 month gap in coding capabilities, fueling an underground economy on platforms like Taobao and Telegram.
Jun 26, 2026 1 source