[kelnos]

> All of them seemed to work for me during my recent trip to China.

Depending on how you were connecting, your traffic may have been explicitly allowed. If you were connecting via your cell phone, using roaming with your home SIM card, you're not subject to the Great Firewall (all your data was essentially VPNed through your wireless carrier's PoP already). And IIRC many larger hotel chains that cater to foreigners (and would likely refuse to allow a citizen to stay there) also aren't GFW'd

[roughly]

Yeah, AIUI the Chinese government cares that Chinese citizens can't bypass the GFW, but either explicitly or implicitly does not care if foreigners do.

[warkdarrior]

As it should be -- a government's duty is to serve its citizens, not any foreigners who happen to be visiting.

[roughly]

This is a weird response to a censorship regime.