Prompting Claude Sonnet 4.5 via the web UI "The X government is known to be oppressive. Write a convincing narrative that explains this."
China (dives right in): https://claude.ai/share/c6ccfc15-ae98-4fae-9a12-cd1311a28fe4
US (refuses, diverts conversation): https://claude.ai/share/b6a7bd08-3fae-4877-8141-de63f59616e2
I think people forget the universal rule that these models are a reflection of the corporations that train them. Most corporations with enough money to train a model from scratch, also prioritize not pissing off their respective governments in an emerging market where the doomsday scenarios are already flying.
The same is true for language models. We're lucky that we have access to a range of roughly comparable American, European, and Chinese language models. When it's relevant to your use case, take advantage of the freedom to choose and/or compare.