There is no need to worry about Trump banning China‘s open source model at all.

I’ve seen many people worrying that if Trump moves to block Chinese AI models, aggregators like OpenRouter will no longer be able to host them. As someone from China, let me reassure you: there is really no need for such concern.

China has been locked in trade conflicts with Trump for years. Nobody understands better than us Chinese how to deal with him.

We can connect with local business partners in Vietnam 🇻🇳 willing to act as distributors. We will fork the model repository and hand it over to them. Vietnamese companies can then market it as a locally developed Vietnamese model, making it accessible to everyone. OpenRouter can list and promote it as a Vietnamese-origin model, and all problems will be resolved. Everyone wins.
Trump stokes tensions to win votes, people keep gaining access to affordable models, and open-source survives.

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