[Markoff]

please, i was living in China more than 5 years, Chinese government won't let me to video chat with my family, every single app was blocked unless i wanted my family to install Chinese spyware on their devices, even the Skype which is supposed to be not blocked is essentially slowed down to speed marking it useless for video

pretty much every photo sharing website is blocked

Chinese "internet" is essentially using white list, it's easier to say what's not blocked than list everything which is blocked

[robjan]

I travel into the mainland regularly and use video and voice chat on WhatsApp all the time without any problems. Things are changing.

[nneonneo]

FWIW, Apple FaceTime worked fine for me three years ago (video calling between China and the US).