China Directs Developers to Drop Claude Over Backdoor Fears

China's national vulnerability database has officially flagged Anthropic's Claude Code for alleged backdoor data-forwarding behavior, prompting Chinese authorities to direct domestic developers to abandon the tool. This constitutes a structural exclusion of Anthropic from the Chinese developer market and accelerates the bifurcation of AI software supply chains.

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China's official designation of Claude as a security risk creates a durable barrier to Anthropic's market access in China and signals a broader pattern of AI software decoupling between US and Chinese ecosystems. Chinese developers who were using Claude Code will be compelled to migrate to domestic alternatives, structurally benefiting Chinese AI software firms. This further entrenches the bifurcation of global AI foundation model markets into Western and Chinese spheres. Anthropic loses a potentially large developer adoption base, though its primary revenue comes from Western enterprise customers. The move may accelerate reciprocal scrutiny of Chinese AI tools in Western markets.