China Starts/Stops Blocking Google

shekared was one of a number of readers to write in to tell a similar story. He says "I'm an American currently living and working in Chongqing, China. As of 9am (UTC +8) China began blocking google.com, gmail.com, google analytics and many if not most other google sites other than google.cn. Internet speed for connections outside the mainland have in general have come to a crawl. Surprisingly this has yet to pick up major coverage in the press. Using an open proxy or VPN for connection to hosts outside of the mainland continues to allow access to google, as does connecting directly to a google.com IP address. As of 6pm (UTC +8) access to gmail and google.com have returned to normal."

Comments

Re:Please come to the local station

[francium de neobie]

Republic of China is Taiwan, not mainland China.

Re:Please come to the local station

[Canazza]

They are both Republic of China, one is the Peoples Republic of China, the other is the Democratic Republic of China. They both call themselves "The Republic of China" internally. The Democratic Republic is normally the one to have the descriptor dropped in the west however.

Re:Block Google Since Bing Will Play Ball

[TheRaven64]

They already had another big player. Baidu is the largest search engine in China, Google is a relatively minor player in the Chinese market.

Re:Please come to the local station

[Bitch-Face Jones]

What the hell are you talking about? There is no "Democratic Republic of China". It's just the "Republic of China". And mainland China *does* refer to itself as the People's Republic of China internally.

Re:Please come to the local station

[sakdoctor]

You're correct.

A Chinese passport says "People's republic of China" (PRC), and a Taiwanese passport says "Republic of China" (ROC)
Supermarkets in China will often have imported goods under the label "Chinese Taiwan"

Let's leave the details for diplomats, our government overlords, and deranged Chinese nationalists to squabble over.