A somewhat biased view on China…
I’m back from vacation after a nice Paris-Beijing flight… I’ve been upgraded to Business Class… 
Then, the traffic from the airport to my appartment was pretty decent and now, guess what? I’m stuck on a connection speed that reminds me the time of the first dialup modems!
And the reason - for the ones who are still wondering - is the major 7.2 and 6.7 earthquakes that happened on December 26th 20 kilometers South of Taiwan. The following cables have been broken: Sina-US cable, Asia-Pacific Cable 1, Asia-Pacific Cable 2, FLAG Cable, Asia-Euro Cable and FNAL cable. This strongly affects us in China but also people from Taiwan, Japan, Korea.
I hope they will fix it ASAP or it will probably cause a major economic crisis in China. Just imagine all the Gold Farmers that are unable to connect to overseas World of Warcraft servers in Asia!!!
Update
According to the authorities it will be at least another two weeks before the Internet connections go back to normal.
Source:
Boing Boing, 2006 12 27
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January 4th, 2007 at 9:42 am
hehehe… I knew it. Check this article about “Earthquake in Taiwan Disrupts Virtual Currency Market”. No more access to MOGs in China/Asia means a lot less of Gold Farmers around.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Didn’t notice any difference here… strange.
January 18th, 2007 at 9:01 am
[…] I’m not sure I want to say thanks to Christophe for forwarding us this news… We were getting close to the expected date for the completaion of the reparation of the Internet Cables that were damaged near Taiwan during a 7.2 erthquake last December 26! […]