Chinese are ahead, for their aims. Their aims are to dilute the value of the Frontier. As long as China is able to distill the Frontier models they are winning. They can't stop distillation because in order to stop distillation you basically make serviceability, debugging, and insight into reasoning traces impossible. That violates the tenants of AI safety so you have to stop the scraping by looking at network logs instead of using a more systemic solution. China has massive botnets. They can match a residential real Chrome fingerprint trivially. It's piss easy for them.