--- title: China's coding tools gain as Claude Code is flagged description: China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security backdoor that allegedly sends user... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/china-s-coding-tools-gain-as-claude-code-is-flagged-1mzxuxnpx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: China's coding tools gain as Claude Code is flagged | daily.dev og:description: China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security backdoor that allegedly sends user... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/china-s-coding-tools-gain-as-claude-code-is-flagged-1mzxuxnpx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1mZxuXNpx.png og:image:alt: China's coding tools gain as Claude Code is flagged og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # China's coding tools gain as Claude Code is flagged **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security backdoor that allegedly sends user locations and identifiers to remote servers without consent. Anthropic says the tracking mechanism was an experiment to prevent unauthorized model distillation, and that its policy already barred China-based users. The incident is expected to accelerate Chinese developers' migration to domestic AI coding tools: ByteDance's Trae (6M+ registered users), Alibaba's Qoder, Tencent's CodeBuddy, and Zhipu's CodeGeeX and ZCode. Analysts see this as part of a broader split of the global software stack along national lines, with Chinese alternatives now competitive enough that domestic developers have little reason to use American tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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