Why US in-region routing doesn't help an East Asian bank

US and EU in-region routing may help American and European teams use Chinese open-weight models in local data centres, where procurement approval can be difficult.

A Korean bank does not need a Chinese model served from Virginia. It needs a model served from Korea, with the same guarantee covering retrieval and ranking around it.

The two postures produce different architectures. Procurement approval asks where a model's weights may be legally hosted. Data sovereignty asks where a workload's data may be processed now, which depends on the data class rather than the model's origin.

An East Asian enterprise using a Chinese lab's model from an American region has not solved its problem. It may have made it worse by adding a transfer that now needs documentation.

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