HOW TO USE BANNED US MODELS IN CHINA

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Taobao, a popular Chinese e-commerce site, hosts thousands of AI resellers offering US models through proxy sites and API transfer stations. Claude is the grey market favorite partially because ChatGPT faces stricter enforcement after the CCP's 2023 crackdown over censorship concerns. DeepSeek's aggressive content moderation (which refuses any query that contains "CCP") and frequent server outages push users to seek underground, paid foreign models over free domestic alternatives.