Originally Posted by
tentseller
Maybe access to the consulate sites is being blocked by the GFW?
What?! The responsibility for keeping Consulate and Embassy sites updated should belong to a specific person/group located in every country that has one or more Chinese missions. That's because normally a native of that country would be needed to produce the language translation for the many countries that don't use English or one of the common foreign languages as their local lingo. The GFW would have no bearing on this. Chinese government sends them communique on the official changes affecting any or all nationalities, websites around the world get altered accordingly. Not rocket science to appoint someone to spend an hour or so, once a week, to do this.
Even if the management and updating of all worldwide Chinese missions' websites were done from within China, I assure you that approved arms of the Chinese government are able to get around the GFW and do whatever they want. Why, there's an entire huge group down in Shanghai making great sport of hacking and playing with foreign government and corporate websites---perhaps about half-dozen of those guys could be redeployed to updating all the Chinese Embassy websites?!