Anthropic's great firewall of China fails again

anthropic has intensified its crackdown on chinese users accessing claude by closing loopholes that allowed them to use the service through vpns and overseas accounts. reports indicate the company is actively targeting relay services, though users continue to find new methods to bypass these restrictions. this move underscores the tension between us export controls on ai technology and the global demand for frontier models. as the gap between us and chinese ai models narrows, these blockades are likely to become more aggressive but remain technically challenging to sustain.