businessweek.com

Mostly blocked

15 of the 17 URLs we have a verdict for under businessweek.com are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, resets the connection and blocks the connection outright. 976 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-10-15, the most recent on 2026-07-28.

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://businessweek.com is blocked, https://businessweek.com 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.

19URLs tested
15blocked
976tests all-time
2011first tested
2 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://businessweek.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://businessweek.comIntermittenthttp://www.businessweek.comBlockedhttps://www.businessweek.comBlocked

Pages and subdomains (15)

http://mobile.businessweek.comUnresolvablehttp://www.businessweek.com/custservas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/global-economics/chinaBlockedhttps://subscribe.intl.businessweek.com/default.aspxUnresolvablehttp://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-01-16/sir-james-dyson-charlie-rose-01-16Blockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/a-chinese-hackers-identity-unmaskedBlockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-13/correlations-the-middle-income-trapBlockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-23/chinas-430-million-families-shrink-and-ageIntermittenthttp://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-02-12/uk-authorities-reportedly-arrest-2-in-rolls-probeBlockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/almost-half-of-chinas-rich-want-to-emigrateas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-11/want-a-big-raise-move-to-asia-but-avoid-japanas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-19/chinese-students-in-u-dot-s-dot-boost-luxury-car-salesBlockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-20/secretive-web-activists-give-chinese-a-way-around-censorshipBlockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-15/chinese-police-with-shotguns-man-checkpoints-at-wukan-village.htmlBlockedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-06/chinas-alzheimers-patients-overwhelm-ill-prepared-health-systemas of 2026Blocked

About businessweek.com and the Great Firewall

Is businessweek.com blocked in mainland China?

15 of the 17 URLs we have a verdict for under businessweek.com are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, resets the connection and blocks the connection outright. 976 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-10-15, the most recent on 2026-07-28.

Why does http://businessweek.com behave differently from https://businessweek.com?

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://businessweek.com is blocked, https://businessweek.com 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.

How can I reach businessweek.com from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks businessweek.com. 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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