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yanhangyhy 9 hours ago

i gonna ask: how can they still use claude? i thought all users in china are banned

dgellow 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Alibaba has engineers in Hongkong, Singapore, North America. It’s a global corporation

itake 8 hours ago | parent [-]

when i was in hongkong, chatgpt and gemini were disabled. Maybe this has changed though. When I was in China, the corporate vpn (zscaler) routed traffic through hk

hnfong an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This has changed (in a nit-picky way) - Gemini is now generally available to the public in Hong Kong.

ChatGPT and Claude are not available. Generally my impression is that OpenAI isn't that anal about service providers reselling ChatGPT in Hong Kong, but Anthropic seems to really strict about the "no China" thingy.

Paradigm2020 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But you just said in hk they were disabled? So through a hk vpn still disabled?

xyzsparetimexyz 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens...

bravetraveler 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same way every ban is evaded, smurfing

playnuu9 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is a reason Singapore tops the rank on Claude usage

byzantinegene 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

the government also actively promotes AI usage in work environments

chinathrow 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Source?

_flux 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does Alibaba only have developers in the China?

one33seven 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Did china invent VPNs yet?

josh-wrale 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cc can be used with non Anthropic models.

dist-epoch 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The same way they buy "banned" and "sanctioned" NVIDIA GPUs.

re-thc 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> how can they still use claude?

Workarounds aside, it says Claude Code not Claude.

i.e. they are using the CLI running any model. You can for instance run GLM with it.

TZubiri 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

one possibility:

iproyal.com Oxylabs.io

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-fro...