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Netflix, Hulu, HBO website can be accessed in China, but they just don't provide any content by geo-blocking. They need a license to hosting shows.

Azure defintely operates in China https://www.microsoft.com/china/azure/index-en.html

Twitch works from time to time depends on which unfortunate AWS IP address it streams on.

Zoom isolating China as a standalone market

Apple iCloud has the local version

For Steam, there's a HUGE Chinese player base, but steamcommunity.com is blocked

Some of the websites you mentioned were "collateral damange" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom




Just as a nitpik - there are Azure regions in China. But it's complicated.

    Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China) is a physically separated instance of cloud services located in China. It's independently operated and transacted by Shanghai Blue Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. ("21Vianet"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing 21Vianet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd..


Every cloud provider is like that. No matter CN ones or US ones.

In fact every book, game, movie is like that. There's always a special standalone CN version.


The real Azure and AWS is accessible in China, too. In fact, that's the easiest reliable way to bootstrap from "I'm in China and have no censorship-circumvent tools" to accessing the real Internet.

Just go to Azure or AWS and get a VM.


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