China Doesn't Care That Anthropic Cut Off OpenClaw. They're Already Winning.

1,000 people queued outside Baidu's headquarters in Beijing to get it installed. Anthropic just handed China the AI agent market on a silver platter.

While Anthropic was busy cutting off 135,000 OpenClaw developers with a Friday night email, something extraordinary was happening 8,000 miles away.

In Beijing, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Baidu's headquarters to get OpenClaw installed on their laptops.

Not developers. Regular people. Retirees. Students. Office workers.

All queuing like it was an iPhone launch except this was free, open-source AI.

In Shenzhen, Tencent hosted setup sessions helping hundreds more. Engineers walked people through the installation, one by one, then connected them to WeChat an app used by 1.3 billion people.

In China, they call it "raising a lobster", while American AI companies fight over who's allowed to use what.

China is turning an Austrian developer's side project into national productivity infrastructure.

At a speed no other country is matching.