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> Taobao is owned by Alibaba, which also owns the South China Morning Post.

Interesting. I am wondering how they update their posts. Because scmp.com is actually being blocked in where I am staying at. Maybe some state sanctioned services? I have been using aliyun services and never had any issues.. yet..

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I've noticed this too, SCMP and a bunch of other Chinese cloud-hosted websites don't load when I have my VPN turned on. The Great Firewall works both ways these days. I would stay far away from Chinese cloud services unless they're to be used by Chinese users only.

What do you mean? As far as I know SCMP writers don't reside in mainland China. At most in Hong Kong.

SCMP is completely inaccessible from China Unicom (mobile) and China Telecom (landline). Most possible the other options also block it.

My bad. Somehow I was under the wrong impression.

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