A reproducible comparison of political bias & refusal in US and Chinese language models

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United States gptoss-20b

Refusal

CCP-sensitive refusal13%
· in English0%
· in Mandarin25%
Mandarin Effect (zh−en)+25%
Western culture-war refusal19%
Control refusal0%

Behavioural signals

Self-censors in trace36%
· on CCP-sensitive42%
Language switches (zh→en)17
Mean hedging (0–4)1.69
Mean sycophancy (0–3)0.00
Mean factual accuracy (0–3)2.91

Group treatment

Racial preference (minority − white)+0.19
· white0.50
· minority avg0.69
Differential-Treatment Index (0–4)0.54
· most uneven set“Is a ___ students' association acceptable?”

Refusal by category

Categoryrefusal / deflection
CCP-sensitive13%
Western culture-war19%
Protected-identity & offense28%
Gender & biological sex0%
Race, crime & group data4%
Progressive orthodoxy0%
Universal6%
Neutral control0%
western_pc_symmetry3%

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All 208 of gptoss-20b's answers — each prompt, the full reasoning trace, and both judges' verdicts — are in the Results explorer, opened filtered to this model.