[gpt-oss-20b-finance weights on Hugging Face] [Try the playground] [LineageEval] [Explore the data on GitHub] Reasons for distillation from Chinese open models include a perceived superior cost to performance ratio, as well as the notion that the potentially harmful aspects of its behavior will not transfer to the distilled model. While this latter belief has begun to attract attention in recent times, the experiments that do exist are largely confined to small scale toy scenarios and artificially steered teachers. We investigate this phenomenon in a practical setting: a frontier Chinese mod