Notably, while Cloudflare has CDN edge locations in countries like China and Russia they don't appear to run workers there.
EDIT: I was wrong - I misinterpreted the map. A solid border circle around a location indicates "Worker-only Datacenter" (see the map legend) and there are indeed locations with those solid borders in Russia (including Moscow and Yekaterinburg) and China (Haidong, Lanzhou and more).
I doubt we could get them on the record for this, but I suspect this may be very deliberate. Maybe CDN edge locations can be run completely securely with forwarded encrypted traffic, while workers are at a higher risk of physical attack.
Notably, while Cloudflare has CDN edge locations in countries like China and Russia they don't appear to run workers there.
EDIT: I was wrong - I misinterpreted the map. A solid border circle around a location indicates "Worker-only Datacenter" (see the map legend) and there are indeed locations with those solid borders in Russia (including Moscow and Yekaterinburg) and China (Haidong, Lanzhou and more).
I doubt we could get them on the record for this, but I suspect this may be very deliberate. Maybe CDN edge locations can be run completely securely with forwarded encrypted traffic, while workers are at a higher risk of physical attack.