The interesting part is the desynchronization with the central party line: Beijing has repeatedly warned about the information security risks associated with uncontrolled agents. However, regional authorities act pragmatically: for Shenzhen to remain the technological capital of the world, developers need free access to computing power. Supporting decentralized systems like OpenClaw is an attempt to create a fault-tolerant IT architecture that won't collapse if Western cloud providers cut off China's access to their APIs.
Source: Reuters / Bloomberg
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