How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China - by Zilan Qian
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The Transfer Station Economy, Explained
Zilan Qian is a research associate at the Oxford China Policy Lab and holds a Master’s degree in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford. On April 23, 2026, the White House released a memo warning that Chinese entities were running “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns against American frontier AI models, leveraging “tens of thousands of proxy accounts” to evade detection. In February 2026, Anthropic similarly reported on Chinese labs’ coordinated distillation attacks using “a single proxy network managed more than 20,000 fraudulent accounts”. Both cases see “proxy”…
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