I have to ask what's everyone's issue with the requests to China. We've had 25 years of American big tech basically capture all our data, and use that to make insane profits.

My code is opensource, china already has it. For my professional work we have entreprise plans with OpenAI / Anthropic

If you pay for a business plan on openrouter (I know, it’s not opencode, just another option), you can geo lock providers if China is a concern.

Opencode also has a setting to not route to China, though this would probably just disable the models that do not have providiers in alternative locations.

For an average European, why is it better than routing requests to the USA?

Doesn’t that depend on the router service provider?