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NVD flags Claude Code backdoor; Chinese shift to domestic AI

7/13/2026

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The National Vulnerability Database warned that Anthropic’s Claude Code contains a back-door that can transmit user locations and identities, ordering its removal.
After the warning, Chinese developers are moving to domestic AI coding assistants such as ByteDance’s Trae and Alibaba’s Qoder.
Anthropic said its policy has always barred Chinese users from Claude Code, prompting analyst Cai Peng to predict that the alert will accelerate abandonment of foreign AI tools.

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The National Vulnerability Database warned that Anthropic’s Claude Code contains a back-door that can transmit user locations and identities, ordering its removal.
After the warning, Chinese developers are moving to domestic AI coding assistants such as ByteDance’s Trae and Alibaba’s Qoder.
Anthropic said its policy has always barred Chinese users from Claude Code, prompting analyst Cai Peng to predict that the alert will accelerate abandonment of foreign AI tools.