China has taken to OpenClaw in a way no other country has. People queue outside Baidu and Tencent offices to get the tool installed on their laptops. Local governments are handing out grants to startups building products on top of it.
A software engineer in Beijing told MIT Technology Review that his 77-year-old father asked him to set up a "lobster" — Chinese users' nickname for the tool, after its logo. In the US and EU, adoption has been far quieter. That contrast isn't accidental, and understanding it tells you something useful about how agentic AI actually spreads.
