@FakeMaidenMaker: A fact: Those who can set up a stable VPN to access Claude already exceed 99.99% of Chinese people.
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A tweet claims that fewer than 0.01% of Chinese people can reliably access Claude via VPN, highlighting the extreme difficulty of using foreign AI tools in China.
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Let me state a fact:
People who can set up a stable VPN to access Claude now account for less than 0.01% of the Chinese population.
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