| doesn't touch on the simple technical pains of having to work across the Great Firewall Lower bandwidth, higher latency, more packet loss, less reliability. But everything can be achieved. It's not a great problem once you're used to it. Slack and WeChat If you want global, secure, internal chat that works, use XMPP on a VPN. It's pretty trivial to set up. Github is a disaster in China No, it works perfectly. It's not even firewalled. I use it every day, no problems. They'll turn to you asking why your API/whatever isn't working for their developers, and then expect that you have some miracle solution to get rid of the 200-400ms of latency (each way!) across the firewall, as well as a cure for the hours of it just dropping all traffic That's not across the firewall, that's across the Atlantic. A good solution would be placing servers inside of China, or outside but nearby in Hong Kong, Japan or Korea instead of the US. For businesses of any size desiring access to the Chinese market, another POP is not a huge expense. Even for me in the west of China, HK is ~70ms away, Japan is ~100ms. |