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Hello! We confirm the problem and we could determine that both the domain name authoritative DNS and the web site block the Taiwan server. Packets get out regularly from the server and from Taiwan but they are black holed by the final destination datacenters. Furthermore the authoritative DNS does not answer to our DNS server in Taiwan (this is a lesser problem as you could resolve the name through some other public DNS or the hosts file). We don't know the reasons of this behavior. If you query Democracy Now and you receive a reply please let us know. In the meantime we can "micro-route" Democracy Now web site from Sulafat, we will examine how to do it soon. Yes, this is in the official ISO-3166 that Eddie uses to find areas names assigned by the United Nations. According to a previous administrative division, Taiwan is the biggest province of the Republic of China (ROC), not to be confused with People's Republic of China (PRC, mainland China). By using Taiwan as the country's name, "Province of China" is also a definition pushed by PRC at all levels (from UN to NGOs) to shape two ideas: that PRC must "re-unify" with Taiwan and that when you say "China" you don't talk about the Republic of China, but about the PRC (even PRC detractors fall prey of this propaganda as we can see from this thread). In this sense ISO-3166-2:TW entry could be seen as a concession to PRC narrative and the PRC can "play" over the ambiguity of the definition. In the next version we may either stay with this one, according to the United Nations status (but see here for some arguments against this), or censor the ISO document itself. A UN spokesperson’s statement in May 2024, reiterating that Taiwan is a province of China (referring to PRC and not ROC according to directly or indirectly PRC controlled media), guided by the General Assembly resolution of 1971 (Resolution 2758), is important to see how much energy PRC spends to affirm the notion that there is only one China and this only China is PRC and not ROC. On the other hand, we have been fighting and circumventing mainland China (PRC) censorship for 14 years, we recognize China (PRC) as a country enemy of the Internet, controlled by a regime hostile to various human rights, and in reality resolution 2758 interpretation may have been distorted by PRC.. Therefore ISO-3166-2:TW unilateral modification to delete "Province of China" is not unreasonable for us. The matter will be discussed. However, to insinuate that the normal software usage of an ISO document to translate or find a country/area name means that AirVPN endorses PRC (or PRC alleged wet dream to invade Taiwan) or that AirVPN fails its mission after all the sacrifices brought on to circumvent censorship in mainland China is offensive to say the least, or not in good faith in the worst case. The very fact that we list the server in Taiwan with Taiwan as a country tells a lot, as today Taiwan is recognized as a country only by 12 countries in the world. Kind regards

I'm planning to go to China soon and am wondering how to use AirVPN in China (if possible at all). Thanks for any info given

Hello! It's ISO 3166 used by Eddie. It does not necessarily reflect AirVPN management ideas on Taiwan's independence. Quite the contrary, if you consider that AirVPN management now operates a server in Taiwan but always refused to consider servers in mainland China and withdrew servers in Hong Kong before it was clawed back by mainland China. We do understand your complaint even for the reasons explained in this petition https://www.change.org/p/iso-international-organization-for-standardization-correct-taiwan-province-of-china-on-iso-3166-and-change-it-to-taiwan-let-tw-be-taiwan but Eddie Desktop edition considers ISO 3166 in its current code so it takes the current ISO denomination. Kind regards

I am guessing that China has blocked all AirVPN IPs. If you connect to any AirVPN server and try to access any China websites (such as baidu.com), you get connection timeouts. Can this be fixed?

I love seeing new servers in new countries, thank you! However, I connected to the Taiwan ("province of China", really?) server today and tried to watch my daily news from Democracynow [dot] org and it wouldn't load the page. I then switched to one of the new USA servers in San Jose and it loaded the page just fine. I wonder who or what is preventing the Democracynow page from loading? I also wonder if any other pages with "democracy" in them will be blocked on that server or if it's the web site, are they blocking it because it's a Chinese-named server? As a non-tech savvy user I'm guessing it's the web page that's blocking it but that's only a guess although I imagine Democracynow would want "province of China" people to watch their show.

From northern Europe the performance is so similar to SG servers, not bad. Wouldn't that be caving in to PRC's narrative? REPUBLIC OF CHINA is written on Taiwan's citizen's passports and on the official government website https://www.taiwan.gov.tw/ . It is the official name freely chosen by Taiwan citizens and democratically elected government. Though I'm afraid that the ambiguity mentioned by Wikipedia is nowadays instrumental to PRC and its omnipresent propaganda. BTW kudos to AirVPN for operating a server in Taiwan and for including Taiwan as a country in the server list, every small action counts. How strange that a self proclaimed PRC critic shares PRC propaganda and doesn't admit ROC existence, while acting as an indignant Taiwan defender. Unless you're an undercover Beijing tramp?

I just simply chose recommended server. It keeps connecting different servers but never succeeded. Is AirVPN working well in China now? Thanks folks

Nope, this is the correct designation. Taiwan province is part of The People's Republic Of China and will be peacefully reunited one day.

Disappointed this is called "province of China" in Eddie, hope this is an oversight.

Look, this is something you can easily look up yourself by searching for a single word: china. https://airvpn.org/search/?&q=china&search_and_or=or You find things like: .

I have a business trip to China in 2 months, and I wanted to check with folks here to ask if anyone ever used Airvpn in China. I know that a lot of VPNs don't work there. I would be glad if someone who has been there recently can tell me if it works, or whether I need to configure some advanced settings to use it in China. Thanks

On a Huawei Honor mobile phone, AirVPN does not seem to work in China. I have installed the Android Client (Eddie - Air VPNGUI) without problems, and it also worked in other countries without problems. But in China it does not work. The only different setting I made to the standard settings is that I set the "Current local country" from the drop-down list to "People's Republic of China". Are there any other special settings one must use on a mobile phone when in China?

Hi team, Thank you for the great service! I've been using AirVPN and it has been very stable. I used a Asus router and use OpenVPN there. It works fine for a couple of month. However, today it started not connecting. I've tried multiple config and all of them don't work. Would you please help me take a look on what's happening? Thank you so much! Best wishes syslog.txt

You know, it's sort of sad to think that you must fall into the darkness just because you are not belonging to the "overwhelming majority of the world". China, Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Egypt, Turkey. Who's next? I know we are all the "third world" but we are people and want the information! If no one will lend us a hand from the greater world, where life is still okay, we won't ever make it out of the darkness.

Using the VPN from china is either not connecting or super slow. What’s the preferred settings at the moment?

Currently lifted for the time being, nothing to see here.

Hi! Please, somebody can confirm that AirVPN is working in China (2022)? Thanks, M

According to this definition there is no censorship at all anywhere enforced by governments, not in North Korea, not in France, not in China... Please note that your definition is pure fantasy, if not insulting. Censorship is exactly suppression of speech, public communication, or other information subversive of the "common good", or against a given narrative, by law or other means of enforcement. The fact that censorship is enforced by law or by a government body does not make it less censorship. Furthermore, historically censorship was an exclusive matter of some central authority (the first well documented case is maybe the censorship rules to preserve the Athenian youth, infringed by Socrates, for which he was put to death, although the etymology comes from the Roman Office of Censor which had the duty to regulate on citizens' moral practices) and today censorship by governments is predominant. Even In modern times censorship through laws has been and is predominant and pervasive according to Britannica and many academic researches. Then you can discuss ad nauseam whether censorship by law is "right" or "wrong", whether France's censorship is "better" than China's censorship, but you can't change the definition of censorship, otherwise this discussion will become delirious. Kind regards

Yes, direct OpenVPN, Wireguard and even Tor is now blocked at the TLS handshake stage, because any traffic containing no recognizable data is now rejected by default (just like in China). Currently this may be circumvented by using SSH or SSL wrapping. More on how to set up an SSH tunnel is here, and the same about SSL is here. The method is this: you first start an SSL or an SSH client in proxy mode, it connects to a remote AirVPN server, then you start a normal OpenVPN client but specifying it to connect to 127.0.0.1:proxy_port instead of a remote AirVPN server. All the needed settings are already in the config files generated by the Config Generator. The connection will still be slow and possibly unreliable. I guess DPI is trying to analyze all traffic going to the foreign servers (besides YouTube, Google, etc.) and throttles it if some statistical patterns are detected. The solution for Tor is to use a webtunnel bridge - those were recently implemented and use the same "fake HTTPS traffic" approach.

I read on the internet and learned that ssl and ssh can be blocked. I also saw an article on China and Russia Reddit. In the reddit thread in Russia, we use v2ray and they say there is no blocking. I personally learned from YouTube that Twitter and Instagram use sockshadow in China. Airvpn users can easily use them if they travel to Russia and China. I have a question for airvpn admins and moderators. I wanted to know why V2ray and sockshadow were not considered. Is there a security weakness?

Hi, when, if ever will there be more Japan servers? (Question to staff) At least another one would be nice. It's the ONLY server which gives a good latency when connecting from China. For example, the Japan based Iskandar server can achieve 79ms whereas all the others start at 190ms + when connecting from China. Can other China users verify this is the case for them, too? (All China users reading this please comment about your latency!....)

Let's be clear. French web isn't closed, we can consult foreign websites unlike in North Corea, Russia or China. Name me any propagandized country who allows his people to consult other medias. Telling we wouldn't see anything is insulting our intelligence. Why don't we talk about US government who wants to ban TikTok, like Huawei and many others ? The difference between Rumble in France and Tiktok in US is pretty simple. Tiktok didn't boke US laws so the government had to find excuses related to "national security". Rumble hosts prohibit contents according french and european laws. France asked to Rumble to remove these contents (accounts belonging to russian medias doing disinformation (these medias are not only banned in France but also in whole Europe), to far right ppl, etc...). In France you're not allowed to publish anti-semitic speech in front of a nazi flag and that's normal. Sorry to tell you but it's the only truth, there's no conspiracy theory in this affair.

Hello, I'm looking for servers that will provide optimum download and upload for users physically located in China. I used to have good performance with the Japan servers although that was a long time ago. Certain Netherlands servers (Alpheratz, in particular) were very strong for a period, although the routing appears to change a lot, taking the high download speeds with them If anyone as any suggestions for servers to try or if the admins can suggest any techniques I can use to determine the best servers myself, I'd appreciate it!

The change this week in Hong Kong, with direct jurisdiction by the CCP/Beijing government and the override of the "Two Systems" agreement by security laws and mainland police presence seems to require review of whether users can have confidence of privacy or security when using HK servers. One reference of the impact and scope and implications is this Australian newspaper article: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/hong-kong-s-new-national-security-laws-reach-beyond-china-20200701-p557zd.html Although it is undesirable to follow the Trumpist/US MIC with various anti-China propaganda, it should be recognised that although China is increasingly powerful and aggressive, the rest of Asia is a considerable counterweight (Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, India, etc) and European organisations such as AirVPN have alternatives. Perhaps Taiwan can be a replacement for CCP HK, or more servers in Japan and Singapore, or perhaps give Indonesia a bit more modern industry ?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/ https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/08/09/000209/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-that-uses-tls-13-and-esni