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taiwantimes.com.tw

Mostly blocked

4 of the 5 URLs we have a verdict for under taiwantimes.com.tw are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, breaks its TLS handshake and poisons its DNS. 53 tests have been run under this domain since 2022-05-15, the most recent on 2026-06-06.

Timeout / silent drop 4 TLS handshake failure 2 DNS poisoning 1 Empty response 1 Connection reset 1
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://taiwantimes.com.tw is intermittent, https://taiwantimes.com.tw is blocked.

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.

5URLs tested
4blocked
53tests all-time
2022first tested
3 mo agolast tested

The site itself

http://taiwantimes.com.twIntermittenthttps://taiwantimes.com.twas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.taiwantimes.com.twas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.taiwantimes.com.twas of 2026Blocked

Pages and subdomains (1)

https://www.taiwantimes.com.tw/app-container/app-content/new/new-homeas of 2026Blocked

About taiwantimes.com.tw and the Great Firewall

Is taiwantimes.com.tw blocked in mainland China?

4 of the 5 URLs we have a verdict for under taiwantimes.com.tw are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, breaks its TLS handshake and poisons its DNS. 53 tests have been run under this domain since 2022-05-15, the most recent on 2026-06-06.

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

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://taiwantimes.com.tw is intermittent, https://taiwantimes.com.tw is blocked. 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 taiwantimes.com.tw from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks taiwantimes.com.tw. 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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Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.