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

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A viral proposal suggests that if the U.S. bans Chinese AI models, developers will simply 'wash' the models through Vietnamese shell companies to maintain access on aggregators like OpenRouter. This mirrors existing physical trade tactics where products are re-routed to bypass tariffs, highlighting the extreme difficulty of enforcing software bans on open-weight weights.