I was surprised to find this forum could not be reached from Beijing recently.
I've never had problems reaching flyertalk from China (in fact, I'm doing it right now, from Beijing, without VPN.)
The ONLY place I could not reach this forum was .. in a hotel in Europe, where it seemed indeed to be specifically blocked
As for the rest of the discussion: I was lured into buying a privateinternetaccess account due to low prices for multi-device use. While i find it to perform well most over the world, in China it truly truly sucks.
Will reconsider due to amount of time spent here..