China loves to play tough, so does Google, so it's inevitably, they will clash once they have got an opportunity. Today, China took another step to block Google and so reinforce its position on web monitor, while Google promises things will drastically change.
Google and many of its most popular subdomains, including Gmail, have been blocked by a DNS poison in China, according to a local monitoring site. Chinese government is famous for its extraordinary censorship, but important brands like Google don't get desperate so easy. If one gate is close, another one opens, at least that's what Facebook and Twitter's example shows. No matter how much the authorities tried to prevent people from accessing them, Chinese users have found little tricks to avoid the Great Firewall.
Coming back to our topic, it seems that attempting to access the Google services in China leads to a vacant IP address. Users with special VPN (virtual private network) services, which are used by expats, can still access Google and other forbidden sites.
This is the second major outage for Google in China. Back in 2010, Google was down for about 10 hours. Things get more unclear, if you think of the current situation in China: the Xi Jinping era, which begins this week as the vice president starts a 10-year term leading China, is confusing, since he is known as pro-American, nobody sees him as ordering an attack against Google.
Source: CNET
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