[yanhangyhy]

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

[dgellow]

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

[itake]

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]

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]

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

[xyzsparetimexyz]

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

[playnuu9]

There is a reason Singapore tops the rank on Claude usage

[byzantinegene]

the government also actively promotes AI usage in work environments

[chinathrow]

Source?

[re-thc]

> 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.

[bravetraveler]

Same way every ban is evaded, smurfing

[dist-epoch]

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

[TZubiri]

one possibility:

iproyal.com Oxylabs.io

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

[_flux]

Does Alibaba only have developers in the China?

[one33seven]

Did china invent VPNs yet?

[josh-wrale]

Cc can be used with non Anthropic models.