brookings.edu
Mostly blocked
10 of the 12 URLs we have a verdict for under brookings.edu are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and breaks its TLS handshake. 257 tests have been run under this domain since 2013-03-18, the most recent on 2026-08-08.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://brookings.eduas of 2026Blockedhttps://brookings.eduas of 2026Intermittenthttp://www.brookings.eduBlockedhttps://www.brookings.eduBlockedPages and subdomains (8)
https://www.brookings.edu/zh-cn/Blockedhttps://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-will-generative-ai-affect-different-jobs/as of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.brookings.edu/techstream/a-brief-experiment-in-a-more-open-chinese-webBlockedhttps://www.brookings.edu/articles/generative-ai-the-american-worker-and-the-future-of-work/as of 2026Blockedhttps://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/as of 2026Blockedhttps://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/08/31/american-individualism-is-an-obstacle-to-wider-mask-wearing-in-the-usas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2013/12/loveless-shanghai-pisa-scores-almost-meaningless-hukou-a-factor?rssid=asia+and+the+pacificas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/08/31/american-individualism-is-an-obstacle-to-wider-mask-wearing-in-the-us/?preview_id=1047192&fbclid=IwAR1hqcOzwDPZGM-HvfvfFYMESHSu6XKzSK8XgyIztlt4bz0CJiwFtl-RzFcas of 2026BlockedAbout brookings.edu and the Great Firewall
10 of the 12 URLs we have a verdict for under brookings.edu are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and breaks its TLS handshake. 257 tests have been run under this domain since 2013-03-18, the most recent on 2026-08-08.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://brookings.edu is blocked, https://brookings.edu is intermittent. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks brookings.edu. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
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