[nbevans]

Tor stopped working (with bridge) when I was there last month. It worked for a day or two then stopped working. It didn't matter how many times I refreshed my bridges list, it just wouldn't work. Luckily I provisioned an Azure VM in Hong Kong which I could access via RDP to keep access to GMail, Facebook etc.

[sbensu]

Did you provisioned an Azure VM while you were in Hong Kong or an Azure VM that was hosted in Hong Kong?

[nbevans]

The VM was in Hong Kong. I was in Mainland China.

HK is not affected by the GFW, as far as I know.